I am thrilled to see that many people are enjoying the video my brother made back in 1990. If this video reaches 1 million views, I will consider taking many of your suggested comments and creating an updated version for everyone to enjoy. Thank you all!
Maaaaan I miss the 90's soooo much. I'm technically a Millennial but I was born right on the cusp of being Gen X. I know every generation says this about the era they grew up in but it was the best time to be a kid. It had the perfect mix of being entertained by technology and playing outside. The internet was in it's infancy (shoutout AOL!), SNL was actually funny, video game systems were coming into their own, and you could still go outside and not come home until the street lights came on. I had a really great childhood and am extremely lucky to have the parents I did.
Absolutely i was born in '84 and feel the same way. We have witnessed our society and the world evolve in astounding ways, multiple times over at this point. But i feel very lucky to have the context of seeing it all unfold, and having had the childhood that I did. And i can only imagine the additional layers of nuance that my parents' experience has given them.
That was my favorite part of the video (and the idea of making prank phone calls) - that everyone asked why he was filming and who would ever watch it? Today there's a presumption that everything someone does is worth documenting----and the pretentiously named "content creator" has to almost always be the STAR of whatever they're filming. So different.
Yeah, parents these days lounge around the house all the time, they are on the internet. I never saw my mother just idling around the house, she was always super-busy. A modern family are more like housemates with no rules, no discipline, no real family vibe. A lot of 10 year olds can't read these days, it's insane, it's because their parents don't teach them and school alone doesn't push them on like it used to.
@@GordonCaledonia That's sad wherever your 10yr olds are from, that can't read? I thought they learn reading and writing through text and social media?? 🤦
@@JoMagic-ny8zu Literacy levels are falling in Britain and in America, look it up. Standard of reading levels, too. There's more to reading than identifying the words as we know.
It's heartwarming to see a 90s home video where people were just having a blast without the modern-day urge to seek attention, flex, or show off. This captures the pure, unfiltered joy of that time.
....home videos were exactly what youre describing though. Theyre clout chasing. That was literally the only purpose to home videos. To show off the videos...
@@clockworkNatetrue, but the big difference is now people can seek attention and have it validated on a large scale. that makes a big difference in how someone will act.
I was born in 85 and I'd agree on movies until the end of the 90s. TV shows, especially animated, were kind of shit in the 70s and got better in the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s then went downhill. I blame reality TV and big budget R-rated movies getting replaced with PG-13.
Our telephone was a party line(other households used the same line) in 1976.You pick up the phone to make a call and someone from another family would be using the line and you just had to wait.Think we did that cause it cost less.
Yea and look how that turned out for your kids and the current kids coming into age being raised by gen x parents. Pathetic excuse for parenting if you ask me😂😂😂
@@Just.A.T-Rexexactly. It started with the "Greatest Generation " not paying attention with each following Generation getting worse. Parents,...no where to be found.
We truly lived in the best era. The crossroads between the Industrial age and the Technological age. People were still outside, everyone knew each other, large groups of kids/teenagers at malls and movies. We had video game systems, but they weren't life enveloping. Arcades with Street fighter/Mortal combat tournaments, Pizza shops, mall courts, crazy parties every weekend, Quads and dirtbikes everywhere, Big hair, MTV, Headbangers ball, Muscle cars, Boom Boxes, RollerSkating rinks, Roller blades!, Saturday morning cartoons, People hung out around town... It was amazing. I really truly miss it.
It sounds like you have a deep appreciation for the era you grew up in, and it's wonderful to hear about all the unique experiences and aspects that made it special for you. The '90s indeed had a distinct charm, characterized by the crossroads between the Industrial age and the Technological age. Those were the days when people still spent a significant amount of time outdoors, socializing and interacting with each other. It's nostalgic to think about the sense of community and familiarity, where everyone knew each other and large groups of kids and teenagers gathered at malls and movies. Video game systems existed, but they hadn't yet fully enveloped our lives like they do today. Arcades were still popular social hangouts, hosting tournaments for classic games like Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat. The presence of local pizza shops, mall food courts, and crazy weekend parties added to the vibrant social fabric of that time. The sight of quads and dirt bikes everywhere, the distinct hairstyles, the influence of MTV, Headbangers Ball, muscle cars, boom boxes, roller skating rinks, roller blades, Saturday morning cartoons, and the general sense of people hanging out around town - all of these elements created an amazing atmosphere that defined the '90s for you. Nostalgia is a powerful emotion, and it's completely normal to miss the past, especially when it holds so many cherished memories for you. While times have changed, these memories will always remain a part of your unique experiences and shape who you are today. Thank you for sharing your sentiments and taking the time to reflect on the wonderful aspects of that era. It's always special to connect with others who hold similar fondness for a certain time in their lives.
These were great times. It’s astounding how a day of profound mediocrity, once dismissed as uneventful, has now transformed into a cherished relic of a bygone era, preserved only in fleeting memories and a handful of rare videos.
what's actually funny is you think a 2 year old video with 247k views counts as "a cherished relic of a bygone era". The 90s are preserved as fuck and only like 1% of footage is on YT. Are you a teenager or something?
I wish I was in my 20s in the 90s. I was born in 99 so I didn't get to experience it at all but I can just tell the 90s were amazing. My generation is full of lost degenerates
I was born in 81. I remember 1990 being just like this. Walls covered in magazine pictures and posters, prank phone calls, the fashion, the hair. Great video!
@@RiffMajesticHell yeah! It was such an 80s thing. My friends would come over when my mom was at work and we would get her little phone book out and call up all her friends and prank them. We'd call the corner convenience store too and prank them as well. No caller ID back then. Hahaha! The 80s were so much fun.
@@josebro352 Right! Before caller ID, etc. in the 80's there were a few times my friends and I would order pizza's to be delivered to a teachers house or whatever. Numerous prank calls to random people in the phonebook, lmao!
Congratulations u are a gen x . Lol You're on the very tale end of it but you're still a gen x. I think it stopped after. 1982 or -1984 I'm not sure which .
I was 11 years old when this was recorded. I was just finishing up 5th grade and headed into middle school with the big kids. In a way, I feel like this recording, or this time, was another life or another reality. I feel like we are living in an alternate reality.
Preach dude, I feel the exact same way. This feels like some lost epoch in time, even though it was less than 40 years ago. It now feels like we are living in some dystopian nightmare.
Born in 1970. I was 20 at the time this video was made. It's bittersweet - a great view of what life was like back then. Middle class families had such comfortable homes and lives whereas many young middle class families today can barely afford to put a roof over their heads.
I miss life without cell phones and computers. It forced us to communicate with each other in person. Now, technology is used to gaslight people into anger and division. I was 18 in 1990. This video is accurate. This life was not boring, it taught us to be more creative and get outside more.
o, media has been doing that since before the camera was invented. It just was less effective and more people turned it off. I remember back when my mom bought Cable TV. We had it about a week and none of us kids watched it, so she cancelled it, lol. Actually, the only thing media related that was really, I guess, interesting, is around 2010 to 2020 (I know my years are off a bit, and there is no "hard" line), the media monopoly was temporarily broken so you had large reach of extremely disparate views out there. It's kind of settling down and getting reigned in, tho. Views that contradict main stream narratives are basically gone and are now trapped in their own little echo chambers.
pretty much, sadly the collapse was already on it's way, tho. The laws were cemented in back in the '60's. That was the last time Americans put up any real fight for their way of life, and they lost.
@@RetroDawn Hart-Celler is what really put the nail in the coffin of the U.S. Affirmative Action and a few others sped the collapse along, but laws like that can go back and forth. Abortion was made law by the courts in the Early '70's, which helped enshrine moral decadence. The media memory holed them, but there were literal riots in communities all over that were trying to protect themselves. The national guard forced kids at bayonet point to go to integrated schools. I knew a guy who was force bussed. He was a big dude, so he did ok, but the girls were not so lucky. One of the favorite hobbies of future astronauts is they would line the hallway so girls would have to walk between them, then when they try, the astronauts would all rip off a piece of their clothing until they were running naked, screaming, and crying down the hallway.
It was the last era of the middle class, anyone who put in an honest days work and really wanted to could afford a modest home and give their children security and a future. We had a lot of common thread culturally that is gone thanks to politics. We used to use the term talking around the water cooler at work because everyone watched the same 5 tv shows every night and discussed it the next day at work. Now it's endless links to UA-cam videos and personalized content that limits our connection. What a treat though to watch. You're lucky these videos weren't tossed!
Man, even a prank call! This is freaking classic. I was in high school 89 to 93, and this is a great example of life before smart phones. People just being who they are.
I got one once from some bully classmate who said I need to contact this other kid cuz her dad just died. It was summer and so wouldn't be seeing her at school, and she didn't live near me. To this day I do not understand this prank. I did not try to contact her, and I don't remember if her dad really died. I also got some general prank calls where the kids would be laughing and hang up, or would ask some weird question, laugh and hang up.
Absolutely! Prank calls were definitely a classic form of entertainment before the widespread use of smartphones and caller ID. It's a fun reminder of a simpler time when people relied on landline telephones and had more opportunities for spontaneous and playful interactions. Back then, technology didn't play as integral a role in our daily lives, allowing people to be more present and authentic in their interactions. It's always enjoyable to reminisce about those moments and appreciate the unique charm they had.
Those of us that got to grow up late 70s through early 90s truly are lucky... i wouldn't trade those memories for anything... salute to all the gen x people out there.. never forget those days
Born in 1969 and I'm so happy I grew up when I did! Life in the '80s and '90s was so much fun that I tell my kids they have no idea what they missed. Peace and prosperity in America and no social media--what a time!
Born in 1973, so I was a high schooler at the same time as these kids. The scene is exactly how I remember - not a parent or a cell phone in sight! The “do you know” bit is from an old Spike Lee Nike commercial.
@@noirekuroraigami2270the old people were right. I wasnt alive in the 60s 70s and 80s but I genuinely believe those were the best times mankind will ever see, world wide. I think they were the luckiest people to EVER exist. I did see the end of the 90s and same thing.. Its just the absolute truth imo. Older people lived in the luckiest happiest times on earth and its rarely recent in terms of time. I now worry the peoplr who carry the same spirit of living in the 60s,70s are going to pass, and with that, the spirit of the time. 😢
Gen Xer here. I like how everyone is not expecting a video to be made. "Who's it for? Who's gonna see it?" There is no default idea in anyone's mind that this video would really be seen by anyone, much less global potential on youtube. Would love a followup video with all the people reacting watching themselves so many years ago.
After reading that I realize that the guys in high positions at that time were hiding the secret they knew was coming. "Shhh don't tell them that youtube will be around soon and they will be able to put videos there"
Wood paneled houses, Toilet seat rugs, girls wearing the giant “Beach Bum” shirts, guys with mullets, Nut’n Honey quoted in passing- and much more I remember. Was 16 in April of 90- in Michigan driving my 82 Caddy everywhere with nowhere to go. Post Vietnam (75 or so) up to 9/11 was a sweet spot to be a kid…
I love how she built her hair up higher when she realized she was being filmed 😂 born in 81 and I vaguely remember when having really high hair or a “wave” as we called it in Hawaii was a point of absolute pride lol..good times, and great video
Yeah I think it's awesome I was born in 82 but it really makes me miss those days now it would be all 3 people would be standing in silence scrolling on their phone
Ah the 90's... Little did we know that the world was going to change so drastically in such a short amount of time... Such an innocent time really... Thank you for putting this up.
У нас примерно также было в начале 2000ых, у нас даже не было видеокамеры, в моëм селе это была роскошь и камера была лишь у единиц, Нинтендо была доступна, но это была пиратская приставка.
You're absolutely right, the 90s were indeed a special time filled with innocence and a sense of wonder. It's fascinating how the world has transformed so rapidly since then, especially with the advent of technology and the internet. The simplicity and nostalgia of that era are something many people fondly remember. It's always nice to take a moment to reflect on those times and appreciate the unique charm they held. Thank you for sharing your thoughts, and I'm glad to have brought back some nostalgic memories for you!
This reminds me of growing up in the 90s and having absolutely nothing to do on our days off from school. We just hung out with the other kids in the neighborhood and had to figure out ways to keep ourselves entertained.
My friend had an entire basement apartment to himself, he also had those t.v. descramblers that got all those movie channels and pron. We used to drink, smoke cigars, talk about chicks we wanted to hook up with, working out, riding bikes...etc. Best times of our lives. We were never home during the 90's, hanging out with other friends in other parts of the city, tagging up graffiti across the city, selling weed to buy beer, or going to the strip joint...etc.
I'm Gen X but I had no idea how awesome Gen X actually is until a Gen Z guy told me! He said, "you're the only generation that has grown up with both all the old analog technologies AND the newer digital technologies." "Everyone else has either or."
I think that can be said about early GEN Y also. The difference being I think Gen X was spared from the addictions the digital age had to offer. Gen X having grown up outside had the ability to not get sucked into it so easily, whereas Y I feel was the beginning of kids not playing outside as much, getting sucked into chat rooms, video games that now had extensive storylines that glued you to the TV longer. Just my take. I still experienced analog thankfully, the very tail end of it.
@@Venkman00 My bad! I said Gen Z guy but meant Gen Y! Boy he really told me! So much attention to Gen Z these days that I automatically said Gen Z. Like Gen X; Gen Y gets lost in the narcicissm of Millennials and Gen Z's.
You do know Gen Y ARE millennials don’t you? They’re literally the same thing. Not to mention the vast majority can easily remember analog tech and the subsequent switch. Me being one of them.
@@gamingbytetv665 piggy backing off you, I just want to mention how many people in the comments claiming to be Gen X are actually Gen Y/Millennials lol
@justinentz-ip7bl the music AND the scene. That's what I feel bad about nowadays. No scene for the kids. We had HUGE parties 2 to 500 people and we all had a blast til the pigs showed up. Even then sometimes the pigs were cool. Man I get the good vibes just thinking about it. 5 bands 10 kegs all night. Was the best.
WOW!!! I was born in '72 and my 11th grade year was almost over. I remember 1990 like yesterday! Now it's 33 years later. Much as I love/miss the 90s, I miss the 80s more!
I was born in 74. I remember we had a new years eve bash in 79. The 80s were pretty awesome. The economy sucked, but luckily my mom & grandmother could sew. It was such an innocent time to be alive. I would love to go back. But I would like to be my age now. ❤😊
@@Parrotgirl-tattoo I actually remember 1979. January, Dukes of Hazzard premiered (pilot episode was shot late 1978) Watched every week til 1985. Yep. WAY different times. My late dad lost his John Deere job when the first farm crisis hit in 1980. My late mom held it all together!
@@dentoldani3460 My mom did too! She got a job in the lunchroom at my school so we didnt have to be latch key kids. My grandmother lived next door & we had neighborhood friends. Freedom. That's what I miss the most. God bless you fellow gen xer. ❤🇺🇸
@@Parrotgirl-tattoo Hell yeah!!! Sadly, I'm the only family member left. Mom, dad, older brother, aunt, grandpa & grandma all long gone. Lost both my parents during my 30s. Dad 2005, mom 2012, brother 2014, aunt 1995, grandpa 1986 & grandma 1993. My parents are in small urns next to each other in my bedroom closet. The last time I saw my grandparents together was when they came here to Iowa for vacation when I was 10 in 1982.
72 gen X here too. I miss the 80ies and 90ies so much. Lost many friends and family since then. Tough. Right now, the world has gone insane. Clown world.
My oldest was 10 in 1990. His sister was 9, and my youngest son was 6. Now they are 43, 42, and 39. Those were the days of Nintendo, Walkmen, and playing outside. They had a treehouse with a slide. We knew all the neighborhood kids and their parents. The kids were either in school, or, outside playing football, softball, shooting hoops - or - inside playing video games or listening to music or both. Today, there aren't many kids close enough to play with for my grandchildren. They ride bikes, scooters, etc. in front of the house. Most of their time is spent on UA-cam, playing Minecraft, Mario games, etc. They all have iPads, Switch and Switch Lite portables, and they like my minivan because it has Wifi. I think my 90's kids had it better.
NES at a friend's house in the neighbourhood and basketball at their yard. Their grandma would yell at us cause sometimes the ball went through the kitchen window and broke her stuff haha. Those were the days:D
I'm close enough to your kids' age to say we had it waaay better. Not all were "latchkey kids."My dad made a good enough living to work, so my mom stayed home. It was safe enough to go play without our moms hovering over us.I feel it was easier to make friends than it was for my son growing up.
I was 14 years old when this was recorded and celebrated my 15th birthday 20 days later. I'd go back to those times right now. I was probably wearing a Metallica, Anthrax, or Testament t-shirt and rocking my long blond hair. Now you'd find me in a polo and rocking the baldness.
I was 14 when this was recorded.... an emerging bass playing legend who at the time, was the only black kid in my neighborhood, who loved Metallica and The Cure.
I'm from the younger Gen X batch, born in 1979. The 80's were such a magical time to be a child, many of us carried that 80's mentality into our teenage years in the 90's, i did things like collecting cool soda cans to decorate my bedroom lol. This video shows the "social networking" of the time which was hanging out with friends at home or outside, whether we had cameras or not. My generation got to witness and experience the biggest leap in technology ever while being familiar with how things were before that, i didn't even have social media until my late 20's lol. Thank you for sharing your memories with the world, in a funny way they are woven into our collective memory.
1978 here, I’ve often considered the fact that we were among the last young adults to have clear memory of what the world was like, pre-world wide web. Consequently how alien it might seem to anyone much younger. That’s why I have to hand it to the kids now who make a conscious decision to unplug, so that maybe they can experience life like we used to.
I miss the time when "lol" didn't exist, and I feel likewise about social media even though I'm here on social media leaving this comment. These comments and this video may now outlast every one of us alive today, depending on the future of UA-cam. Your words and mine may be read a thousand years hence if this technology is maintained so long. You really have to wonder what the distant future will be like, given the state of civilization and technology today, don't you? Where nations, kingdoms and empires rose and fall constantly, now we have nations that endure for much longer and may well last until the earth becomes uninhabitable. This video and these comments may still exist when the sun reaches its red giant phase. They may be transported with human civilization into outer space and to new worlds. Whatever happens, we lived at the dawn of much of the modern world, when computers and robots were invented and began to take over menial tasks from humans. We were here to witness the beginning of a future that will be totally different and unimaginable to those who lived and died before us. We are alive at, and witness to a watershed moment in the evolution of human civilization and technology. It may also be that we are witnessing the beginning of the end of life on earth as we know it, unfortunately, due to the severe impacts our ever-growing civilization is having on it. We have already triggered a mass extinction event and the climate is changing rapidly. We may yet destroy ourselves and our animal companions within a short time on a geological and evolutionary timescale. In that case, no one will be around to remember or research this time or what came before it.
@@ericwood3709 even with the slight doom and gloom tone to your comment i still think humanity has survived the most grueling conditions and changes across centuries, and it will continue to do so for centuries to come. I'm sure this isn't the first attempt to wipe out humanity whether self inflicted, by design, or both. The only way i could forsee total destruction of our kind is facing the same fate as dinosaurs. We are experiencing stuff that if we went back in time to warn the kids in the video about what happens we probably would be labeled as insane or ridiculed to death, but it's what makes the current times fascinating, how much change we've already witnessed while still being young. I look forward to seeing how humanity as a whole deals with the changes in my lifetime, knowing some things about our nature at its core will remain unchanged.
@@Ciclopea2 I'm not generally that pessimistic, but I just don't know what to make of climate change yet. If we do enough damage to the climate, the planet may cease to be inhabitable for a long time to come. This is the first time in human history that we have been able to impact the earth so significantly, so it is wholly unique in our history and does not really have a historical analogue to point to. We are traveling out of control through uncharted territory. If we turn the earth into Venus II, we're literally cooked.
My teen years were the 80's so seeing this brings back memories of the styles and mood close to that time, can't believe it's been over 30 years, doesn't feel that long?
I was born in 85, I was 5 when this was filmed. The 90s hands down were the best years to be a kid. I’m 11 years older than my brother.. and it’s like two different worlds of how we grew up. I remember our form of entertainment was using my friends CB radio and talking with anyone we came across 😂 mostly truckers I assume.
85 too, 90's millennials are def a bit different - I was finishing up a degree at around 26 so hung around younger millennials at the time 90-92 - they couldn't fathom that I could recall 9/11 happening lol. Granted yes they are in their 30s now too but at the time there was such a difference between 80's millennials and 90's millennials to me.
@@l2xsniper1 I’ll be 40 this coming month (84) and we were literally at the transition period. But we still knew an outside world, even into the late 90’s as computers were mostly used by tech savvy kids who wanted to explore the internet. Tail end Millennials born in 1994 to 1996 have a completely different perspective and that is almost entirely because of technology. I see them constantly glued into their phones, and they had MySpace accounts when they probably shouldn’t have been on the social media site.
What unbelievable foresight this kid (didn't even realize he) had doing this. Whoda thunk it that 40+ years later millions of people could potentially view it and be SO nostalgic for the 80's. Thank you.
I remember me and my buddies filming us hdd sad aging out and riding bikes. It just sucks that the videotape we put it on got eaten by the vcr. We didn’t think much of it at the time but it stings now as if live to have it and put it up on UA-cam!
Born in '74 - love the video! The 80s were my highlight too - I loved that decade. So much fun and optimism! We'd have birthday parties at the roller rink, take our bikes out and go all over town. Every summer we played outside until dark - Kick the Can, Ghost in the Graveyard, you name it... we'd just hang-out at the neighbors' houses as everyone had multiple kids your age who you could play with. We'd play in the woods - build tree houses. We ate plenty of junk food but never got fat. Everyone was healthier and happier. I'm not just saying that - they were. Once the 90's came things took a darker turn...and it's just been downhill ever since unfortunately. The internet has robbed us of a lot. It gave us a lot - but it equally took a lot.
Yeah I can definitely say growing up in the eighties things were definitely different . We didn't have all this forensic science. And we didn't have high definition security cameras. So it was quite easy for some to commit a really violent crime And actually get away with it quite easily.
Quite easy for people to do that now as well. Focusing on stuff like this means you didn't make the best of the wonderful eras you had access to.@@robd1859
76! 1990s were the first time I started to have any type of stability. Was great, just had to be home or call my mom by dinner. Lots of freedom that most American kids nowadays will never know.
I so agree to you. Born 92 but i can only imagine how it was prior to that. Had a really good childhood but everything changed progressively after 2000. It breaks my heart.
Damn. I was 15 in 1990. Born in 75. No era like the 80s and early 90s. It’s amazing how comfortable everyone is no one is trying to be something they are not. Would be awesome to see an interview with these guys as adults
1990 ..I was 9 years old..some of the best family times and best times being a kid. Bmx bikes, Ninja turtles and video games .. food still tasted real. Even the junk food was better shopping malls were still a great weekend event...the NBA was at its peak … I could keep going.. I’d go back in an instant if I could
I was 14 in 1990, so I get a lot of this. It's hard not to nod and say "Yep," when you hear the Michael Jordan/Spike Lee commercial references, Sega Genesis acknowledgement, etc. Nostalgia, man, nostalgia.
This is one of my favourite videos on UA-cam, not even kidding. There's something about this video, the 80's and 90's nostalgia, and the fact that Beth is absolutely beautiful (I hope her husband is an excellent husband, she deserves the world).
The people here all looked normal, happy and content. No serious mental health issues. No surgery that morphed someone into something they're not. No surgery to enhance their body parts (except steroids which was largely used by professional athletes). Seeing this is nostalgia itself.
This video pops up in my timeline every so often. I was born in 76'. Kind of tough to watch. It's a powerful video somehow. It brings you right back. I miss those times.
I'm a Xennial and thus, I'm much younger than the kids in this video. But thanks to older siblings I was able to experience a little bit of this era and lifestyle, although we lived in a sort of bad neighborhood and our house wasn't as big. Even just looking at the homes back then felt lived in, gritty, and authentic. Every modern development I see today looks drab, ugly and forced, with the same interior designs and colors. They look soulless and lifeless. We'll never see anything like the late 80's/early 90's again.
Man, ill be forever grateful i grew up in the 90s. I wont get into the cliche of "my generation vs your generation" , but in a world that seems so far away from what it was just 24 years ago, Its the one part of my life that I treasure more than anything, because I got to expierience something that unfortunately doesnt exist anymore.
I cant tell you how important it was to do this. There are videos out there of people filming in supermarkets or movie rental stores and theyre all great records of the times. Fun to go back and look at. Great work, great foresight
My cousins(girls) chased each other around with kitchen knives. Put a bunch of stab makers in the door to their room. Their dad threw the door away and wouldn't replace it. They also got their asses whooped. Lord of the Flies indeed.
I was born in 85 so the 90s were my early childhood days. I loved it back then. Always outside playing with friends, riding bikes and exploring places. Times really have changed for the worse in my opinion
drop me off at 1978, I was in my 20s in the 90s, actually from 1978 to 1988 was the peak of America. it started a slow decline in the beginning of the 90s and just kept accelerating to were we are now, Orwellian authoritarian dictatorship with no freedom.
Born in 74 here. Closest thing to social media for us kids back then was the mall. It had roller skating and a movie theatre as well as the arcade and food court. Across the parking lot was bowling. No bars nearby meant mostly just us teens in the area. Thousands of us just there to basically gossip, eat, buy clothes, comics and music, play video games and to get a feel for how everybody else is doing and feeling. I miss humanity the way it was back then.
@@AlexDroog71 no sir but great eye, Buckethead was borne in 69 I think but I have his yearbook photo as my thumbnail. I’m a big fan, like your good self.
@@chillmurray7529 My older siblings back then went to the arcades. Apart from the employees, there was no parental supervision. I remember a year after this was recorded, Street Fighter II hit the arcades and there were loads of teens throwing thousands of quarters into that fighting arcade cabinet. It was like nothing I ever saw before.
As a fellow gen-Xer, I thank you for sharing! A unique yet typical glimpse of life back then! it seems like this was made to be put on UA-cam 30 years later. The commentary is classic.
@@Laidengizer113 lol then me and you grew up in different neighborhoods.....but I am more of an 80s kid I was driving by 1990.....in the 80s if you were a kid and had a TV in your room your parents were rich
@@weedthepeople2795 Don't want to make it sound like this is what I'm going off of, but I'm watching something on Nightmare on Elm Street right now and I remember the kids having TVs in the rooms in that movie. But I know, it was a movie. Anyway, I was too young in the 80s to really say what was what. Kids my age definitely didn't have TVs in their rooms usually. However, I did know some kids who shared a room together and had a TV and Nintendo in the room. And at the end of 90, I met someone who had a TV in his room as well. Then in the following spring, my dad made the decision to give me his TV for my room, because me and my sister would often be on the living room television playing Nintendo in the evening when he wanted to watch the news. Just what I can remember right now.
@@weedthepeople2795 I'm late Gen X, almost a millennial, and can confirm this. It wasn't even so much about being rich or poor--it just wasn't common for any kid to have a TV in their room. There was one phone and one TV in a house for the family to share.
Crazy how the people seeing you film around the house were like “who is gonna see this or want to see this?” Aaaaand nowww…. Here we are actually interested. Lol. Great stuff, dude!
Late 80's and early 90's were like its own mini decade. Its hard to explain unless you grew up in that time. I was also a Sega Genesis kid. I still have my Sega hooked up. Great video👍
Thank you thank you thank you ❤ Literally took me back. Me and your sister look the same age, well close. 1990 I was 11. So a little younger than her. But wow, what a great 90s house. You guys were surely blessed and had definite sibling love 💕 I love how weird it was back then to video record something. 😂 And now it’s the most common thing in the world. How sadly times have changed 😢
Back when we didn't call ourselves nerds to seem hip. Look at the eyewear donned by generation text. If we had worn those Urkel glasses to school, well, you know.
As a GenX I dont know of any other time when PERSONAL lives have been so affected by change in such a short period of time. I grew up with 5 channels on the TV. No microwave. No computers,no cell phone. Kids played outside all day. I wasnt inundated with drugs or alcohol in every setting. I was safe in public.Things moved at a slower pace. Times were tuff but we always had the basics plus a bit more for special occasions. There was a peace, joy and innocence back then that is gone now. Children arent allowed to be children anymore. Its just so sad.
Wow because that's hilarious I was born in 95 and I can certainly tell you all of 1990 via fucking kindergarten they never shut up about drugs and alcohol it was rubbed in our fucking face on a continuous basis through the supposed education system. I mean I can remember up through the early 90s onward school systems and local police departments wasted countless millions of dollars on nonsense like the Dare program. You had a lot of parents that would not allow their children to be children with not necessarily allow them to grow and those parents happen to be Boomers and some of which were the elder genetics of course that only got worse as the 90s went on and yet today they're wanting to blame the very generation that they raised it's fucking stupid. The nostalgic dick wag of back seat I mean I can say that yeah I think TV was a bit more interesting but then again I myself gave up on movies and television pretty much by the early 2000s basically because one day I'm sitting there realizing it's pretty much the same movie we've all been watching for 15 years so I'm not interested in the next Adam Sandler film that is literally going to be the same as Big Daddy they're just going to change around a couple of things and basically that was kind of the same with all the other films television basically the same thing everything became a rip off of Seinfeld and Frazier and wasn't half as good. There are those that knock the music of the day yeah I can say I was never into the rap crap and or The hip Hop crap outside of a couple of novels hacks and I will say is that that crap isn't in my opinion music it's basically booming Bass with symbols going tick tick tick tick tick tack tickety tack tack and then some dumb motherfucker rambling over it. As far as the rock music goes or just general pop music yeah I mean there's some decent stuff out there but a lot of people are wrapped up in the nostalgia of the past and so they either ever get beyond that to discover that there is still actual good music to be had and frankly quite a lot of it or are they on the hair snippets of it on a commercial somewhere and they can never find songs so they don't know anything about it. And yes I can say that as far as video games go yeah it is my belief that they kind of suck now and that I blame on the online game online gaming is kind of cool but if you wanted to play the game itself via campaign mode they have basically a very small shit campaign mode and in many respects they neglect building that campaign mode into something super awesome because they're just trying to shove everybody into the online arena so for those of us who actually want to play the game it basically sucks. And then of course a lot of people want to dickwag about not having cell phones back in the day etc well big deal because you had plenty of other technology to distract you a lot of people just simply buried their heads to the TV wow a lot of other people ran around with their headphones on via the Walkman or some portable CD player most of this complaints about the cell phone today I literally the same complaints about the technology of old from yesteryear. Children still play outside it's largely the adults that won't let them out so good that you rarely ever see them unless they're on their way to school or on their way back home from school once in a blue in the parents will allow them to have a free day and it's like they might fly by on a bicycle but it's very rare I understand the world isn't as trustworthy is at once so I can understand why they would keep them close to home if not possibly in the house but you can't do that and then hop on the internet and bitch that the kids just play video games all day when that is literally the only option you have provided with. In these nostalgic posts there's always a bunch of hypocritosism and a fuck ton of iron they bitch about how the children are in the house as if it's the children's decision to be in the house I remember I had a super Nintendo and an Atari from a flea market I bought an old commodore computer that at the time you can do much with but the bottom line is is I still had plenty of outdoor activities and I was never hurried to get out of the house I was always doing something I had a paper route when I was 10 I used that paper route to pick up business via mowing yards planting flowers shoveling snow I made banking and no I didn't work ungodly announced the hours to make that money either. Honestly that's kind of my biggest complaint about today pretty much my biggest complaint about the past 16 years. Cuz I can remember growing up in the 90s and nobody dick whacked about the hours they work nobody treated work as if it's a flex in fact I remember society was quite the opposite direction and that was fuck the employer that they only do it for the paycheck and the minute that they can't afford to do anything they're done I mean that was literally society sentiment back then frankly that existed in the mid-2000 but then by the time you get through 09 and 10 all the sudden everybody starts subscribing to the false religion of work ethic and now you have it to where everybody is obsessed with work to wear a lot of people have made their entire identity based on their job you cannot have a simple conversation with these people that they do not talk about work in some capacity or that they want to throw around the amount of hours that they work and then try to say that those who work less are lesser of people they're idiots frankly the rise of idiocy particularly when it comes to employment is unbelievable today. And mostly what it boils down to is they don't understand inflation they're too stupid to realize that having to work that much more for what you could have obtained 5 years ago or what you could have maintained 5 years ago is in fact inflation of course many of these people have convinced themselves they don't have a choice. So they're always looking for approval and of course social brownie points it's pretty interesting because a lot of these people are in the generations that constantly bitch about the everyone gets a trophy mentality except they walk around and want their trophy for simply having a job. And many more of these morons seem to think that they should get a trophy for going to work sick and basically making everyone else sick somehow they've confused the tough guy mentality with absolute stupidity they can't distinguish what's between tough and what's stupid.
same as early gen y (born in 80s) prob 80s born kids were the last is the simpler way to put it. except by the time i was 12 i had sims1 and ff vii. and while it was awesome they became obsessions that i loved and hated at the same time. still skated though.
I was born in '71, this was a great time to be alive & grow up. I grew up with far less than these kids did, but we knew how to make what we had work. Parents didn't have a clue what we were up to & nobody really cared as long as we didn't burn the place down. Great video of a much more civilized age ;)
I asked one of my childhood friends recently what would we have done if we had cellphone cameras documenting our lives as teenagers in the 90s. His reply, "Prison."
Early millennial here and it was the same way. I remember just biking with my friends or siblings wherever whenever and as long as we were home for dinner it was cool. Sometimes we would do sleepovers at friends house and we would just call home on a land-line. Internet really ruined kids freedom with news from everywhere. So parents thought kidnappings were common and ruined everything.
It's fantastic to hear that you have such fond memories of growing up during that time! The 70s and 80s were indeed characterized by a different lifestyle and social landscape compared to today. Many people back then experienced a sense of freedom and independence, with parents being less involved in their day-to-day activities. This freedom allowed for a different type of exploration, creativity, and self-reliance among children and teenagers. It's interesting to consider the changes in parenting styles and societal norms that have evolved over the years. While each era has its own unique challenges and advantages, reminiscing about the past can remind us of the simplicity and freedom that came with it. However, it's important to remember that every generation has its own experiences and struggles, and that the perception of a more "civilized" age is subjective.
Yeah because we got disciplined and had that bluff put in us. We had structure and our parents wasn't afraid to leave us, because we knew the consequences. We had those parents (at least I did), that wasn't gonna vouch for you if you messed up. You took your punishment, and if your over 50 today and are still prison free, say.....Thank God, for good parents....
So crazy how the clothes came full circle. Everyone wearing tie dyes and bicycle shorts and oversized tee’s today. I don’t think the hair is coming back lol. So smart taking a video like this. Wish more people did that. Thank you.
This video makes me miss the 80s and 90s even more…. 😩 You just had to be there to experience it. There wasn’t so much pressure and division from social media, people didn’t take things as seriously as they do now, and music was amazing! I could go on and on. Great times. Thanks for this!
Man, this vid is making me feel old. I was in high school in 1990. The 80’s and 90’s were an awesome time. We’re the last generation of feral kids. No iPhones, social media, ect. The camera this kid used wasn’t cheap as camcorders in 1990 were pricey. A generation of kids who knew how to have fun and could entertain ourselves for hours. I miss how vividly colorful the 80’s and early 90’s was too.
I was such a rebellious kid at 15-20. I was never home, club kid, used to sell weed and switchblades that I got cheap to resell to pay for things, fix stereo's speakers to sell, would make mix tapes for friends. I recall I traded my last switchblade knife to a friend for a mountain bike, that was my mode of transport for many years, and never wore helmets. Life was so free back then, we had the best of both worlds, no parental supervision like the boomers had and better tech like double deck cassette radios, walkman's, CD's and T.V. descramblers that could get Pay Per view movies and Pron for free. LOL Best friggin' times was the entire decade of the 90's, so many party's, so much booze, getting in to strip joints, my friends cousin was like 10 years older and was a mechanic so he made so much money. This guy was the best, he knew we were broke teens so he would take us to the strip bars, pay for drinks and lap dances, so many girls. 90's chicks were so cool, friendly, wanted to fool around and were loyal. Sucks life has to change.
90s kid here. That camcorder was probably either the parents (maybe) but he could also have gotten it from one of his clubs at school, notably yearbook or newspaper. I got to use one of the first digital cameras and it was several thousand dollars. I was in yearbook class. Yes I abused the privilege and did a lot of stuff like this.
@@joemcconnell2674 heh, still got one of those. Turns out video games play better on them because analog signal is quicker, it's also the only way to get retro light gun games to work.
I have a friend from high school I am still in contact with. Back in the mid 80's when we turned 16 and started to drive he had one of the old video cameras that you had to carry the VCR along with you. We'd plug it into a big old DC to AC transformer and drive all over the place taping everything and every one we saw. I really have to convince him to capture some of that stuff and put it online. Video cameras were pretty rare in the mid 80's so when people saw you with one they figured you had to be important. I remember putting on a jacket and tie and showing up at a local McDonalds and managed to convince them I was an intern and we were with the local TV station doing a story. Managed to get the manager to give us a complete tour and get free food.
Growing up Gen X was Amazing,and most of us at the time didnt realize that we were living in a Time that would greatly change soon..I would give anything to be able to live back then again....Class of 1990
Ah yes the 90's nostalgia. 90's was a blast, clubbing & bar hoping, goin to blockbuster. U can't beat the 80/90's movies & music. I was a 70/80s' kid & I'd love to go back in time before technology took over our lives.
I was four years old when this was filmed. Born in 86. Man I miss the 90s so much! It was the last best time to be a kid. No social media, no internet just everyone together finding ways to entertain themselves.
damn... its 2023, and here youtube decides to play me some random strangers home video from the 90s that just floors me with this intense nostalgic feeling. i was born in 1978, this video brought me back... this was a special time! kinda makes me sad, it sort of feels like something was lost around when the 90s ended, like the world is not real anymore. before each decade was so unique in so many ways, just looking at a picture gives a 1000 clues as to when it was taken... after we hit the millennium this is fading, now it feels like the decades and the clues that separate them is the increased level of insane and disconnected behavior displayed by each generation! or maybe i just woke up and smelled the shit as i turn in to an old fart... 🤔
The next 10 years are going to get far, far more surreal, as AI and genetic engineering advance at insane paces. You can already get black market gene editing for everything from muscle growth to increased memory and intelligence.
5.5 billion received a human hardware update. Embalmers started discovering 'white fibrous structures' while embalming cadavers in 2021. Excess deaths have been on the rise since that year. Experts are baffled. It's a real mind bender.@@Valchrist1313
the pace of the world was SO slow back then - I mean you literally felt like you had the whole day to do everything. Now its like you go out grocery shopping for an hour and the day is over.
I am thrilled to see that many people are enjoying the video my brother made back in 1990. If this video reaches 1 million views, I will consider taking many of your suggested comments and creating an updated version for everyone to enjoy. Thank you all!
Great video! Update that shit lol
It's like The Goldbergs, but unscripted and not fake. Damn, I miss this era. The 90s were the best! I was born in 75.
We love the video cause those were the best years ever... This takes me back to good times... Wish I could go back...
Thanks for sharing.
Dude I was 15 then and it’s so nostalgic no phones!!! I love it thankyou so much
Please do an update!
I miss this life please take me back
damn a sega genesis and a guinea pig. guy was living the life
Haha
I had a mega drive 2 and a pig lmao!
Bro had that above ground too! Although he also had a cute sister, that’s one thing you didn’t want because your friends wouldn’t let it be.
@@yourlifeisagreatstory forget about her anyhow, she has a very very serious boyfriend dont you know 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@yourlifeisagreatstory Pervert.
Maaaaan I miss the 90's soooo much. I'm technically a Millennial but I was born right on the cusp of being Gen X. I know every generation says this about the era they grew up in but it was the best time to be a kid. It had the perfect mix of being entertained by technology and playing outside. The internet was in it's infancy (shoutout AOL!), SNL was actually funny, video game systems were coming into their own, and you could still go outside and not come home until the street lights came on. I had a really great childhood and am extremely lucky to have the parents I did.
Are you '79 or 80?
Absolutely i was born in '84 and feel the same way. We have witnessed our society and the world evolve in astounding ways, multiple times over at this point. But i feel very lucky to have the context of seeing it all unfold, and having had the childhood that I did. And i can only imagine the additional layers of nuance that my parents' experience has given them.
Awesome
The best movies and music also
The AOL discs in the mail free trial, we later got this free internet Z something cant remember
everything and everyone look so authentic, nothing looks fake, it's lovely
Well, the beds are made. 😝
Lol
And it wasn't "minimalist". We were okay with having things!
@@sl4983now its just shades of beige and rooms with barely any furniture for the "clean aesthetic" 😭
Late stage capitalism has commodified culture, I suggest reading adorno, baudrillard, and mark fisher.
The sibling dynamics is what hits me the most-totally took me back... he went full tard for a video he really thought nobody would ever see 😂
I was transported back right at that second. I wasn't even expecting it 😂
"never go full tard"
And you never do that.
@@toddmorrissey8372 u kno we kno who u r.
And now a quarter million people have seen little bro act retarded.
What's great about this video is that everyone in it are talking to each other the whole time.
Back when walking around with a camera filming nothing was considered strange.
Except nobody does that today either
That was my favorite part of the video (and the idea of making prank phone calls) - that everyone asked why he was filming and who would ever watch it? Today there's a presumption that everything someone does is worth documenting----and the pretentiously named "content creator" has to almost always be the STAR of whatever they're filming. So different.
@@aldxbaran You're kidding, right?
I dont see anybodybdoing this , no do i see anybdrones .@@aldxbaran
@@aldxbaran You're right, they don't do it with a camcorder but with their phones
They never would have imagined this would be viewed by nearly 1 million people.
The complete absence of parents in these classic harmless shenanigans is exactly what i remember
i thought she was the mom .then i realized we actually were adults when we turned 18 back then.
We practically had to raise ourselves and be the adults at 15.. 😂
Yeah, parents these days lounge around the house all the time, they are on the internet. I never saw my mother just idling around the house, she was always super-busy. A modern family are more like housemates with no rules, no discipline, no real family vibe. A lot of 10 year olds can't read these days, it's insane, it's because their parents don't teach them and school alone doesn't push them on like it used to.
@@GordonCaledonia That's sad wherever your 10yr olds are from, that can't read? I thought they learn reading and writing through text and social media?? 🤦
@@JoMagic-ny8zu Literacy levels are falling in Britain and in America, look it up. Standard of reading levels, too. There's more to reading than identifying the words as we know.
It's heartwarming to see a 90s home video where people were just having a blast without the modern-day urge to seek attention, flex, or show off. This captures the pure, unfiltered joy of that time.
Except the sister constantly seeking attention the entire video 😂 seeking attention isn't anything new.
The big hair, and I knew right away late 80s early 90s.
....home videos were exactly what youre describing though. Theyre clout chasing. That was literally the only purpose to home videos. To show off the videos...
@@clockworkNatetrue, but the big difference is now people can seek attention and have it validated on a large scale. that makes a big difference in how someone will act.
They look more like dead-eyed TV zombies to me, bored out of their minds. Idealizing the past is bullshit.
Born in 68 got 70s,80s and the 90s got the best TV ...movies and music ....man we were so lucky
I was born in 85 and I'd agree on movies until the end of the 90s. TV shows, especially animated, were kind of shit in the 70s and got better in the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s then went downhill. I blame reality TV and big budget R-rated movies getting replaced with PG-13.
@@majordbag2 It’s 2010s
Ok boomer. And then you went on to monopolize EVERYTHING and left shit for the next generations.
Not only were you lucky but you tanked the economy and destroyed the planet. 🖕
Our telephone was a party line(other households used the same line) in 1976.You pick up the phone to make a call and someone from another family would be using the line and you just had to wait.Think we did that cause it cost less.
Feels legit; no parents and no worries. We Gen X practically raised ourselves.
Television raised us.
These days, there's METH and no one has any decorum.
Yea and look how that turned out for your kids and the current kids coming into age being raised by gen x parents. Pathetic excuse for parenting if you ask me😂😂😂
@@Just.A.T-Rexexactly. It started with the "Greatest Generation " not paying attention with each following Generation getting worse. Parents,...no where to be found.
Nintendo and Saturday morning cartoons were our teachers 😂
We truly lived in the best era. The crossroads between the Industrial age and the Technological age. People were still outside, everyone knew each other, large groups of kids/teenagers at malls and movies. We had video game systems, but they weren't life enveloping. Arcades with Street fighter/Mortal combat tournaments, Pizza shops, mall courts, crazy parties every weekend, Quads and dirtbikes everywhere, Big hair, MTV, Headbangers ball, Muscle cars, Boom Boxes, RollerSkating rinks, Roller blades!, Saturday morning cartoons, People hung out around town... It was amazing. I really truly miss it.
It sounds like you have a deep appreciation for the era you grew up in, and it's wonderful to hear about all the unique experiences and aspects that made it special for you. The '90s indeed had a distinct charm, characterized by the crossroads between the Industrial age and the Technological age.
Those were the days when people still spent a significant amount of time outdoors, socializing and interacting with each other. It's nostalgic to think about the sense of community and familiarity, where everyone knew each other and large groups of kids and teenagers gathered at malls and movies.
Video game systems existed, but they hadn't yet fully enveloped our lives like they do today. Arcades were still popular social hangouts, hosting tournaments for classic games like Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat. The presence of local pizza shops, mall food courts, and crazy weekend parties added to the vibrant social fabric of that time.
The sight of quads and dirt bikes everywhere, the distinct hairstyles, the influence of MTV, Headbangers Ball, muscle cars, boom boxes, roller skating rinks, roller blades, Saturday morning cartoons, and the general sense of people hanging out around town - all of these elements created an amazing atmosphere that defined the '90s for you.
Nostalgia is a powerful emotion, and it's completely normal to miss the past, especially when it holds so many cherished memories for you. While times have changed, these memories will always remain a part of your unique experiences and shape who you are today.
Thank you for sharing your sentiments and taking the time to reflect on the wonderful aspects of that era. It's always special to connect with others who hold similar fondness for a certain time in their lives.
Yup we are in between! I was born in 1993
god i miss these days, wish i could relive it again.
@@DMRCapitalHilloh, so you won't really remember the 90s very well then.
83 here. Man I had the best childhood ever.
These were great times.
It’s astounding how a day of profound mediocrity, once dismissed as uneventful, has now transformed into a cherished relic of a bygone era, preserved only in fleeting memories and a handful of rare videos.
So true
what's actually funny is you think a 2 year old video with 247k views counts as "a cherished relic of a bygone era". The 90s are preserved as fuck and only like 1% of footage is on YT. Are you a teenager or something?
💯 80s kid but still gen x, life was great in the 90s.
So well said. You should be a professional writer.
My goodness you put it so well thorish. Im still trying to come up with my comment for this video. i was 5 in 1990 and this shit hits home
The 90s wasn’t a decade. It was an emotion.
i remember it being awhole lot of WTF
Hell yeah the best days ever.
last moment of the 20th century. which i am hoping remains the heaviest century.
I wish I was in my 20s in the 90s. I was born in 99 so I didn't get to experience it at all but I can just tell the 90s were amazing. My generation is full of lost degenerates
@@erikmurray3661yea they were!!
I was born in 81. I remember 1990 being just like this. Walls covered in magazine pictures and posters, prank phone calls, the fashion, the hair. Great video!
Prank phone calls really were such great entertainment back in the 80's
@@RiffMajesticHell yeah! It was such an 80s thing. My friends would come over when my mom was at work and we would get her little phone book out and call up all her friends and prank them. We'd call the corner convenience store too and prank them as well. No caller ID back then. Hahaha! The 80s were so much fun.
@@josebro352 Right! Before caller ID, etc. in the 80's there were a few times my friends and I would order pizza's to be delivered to a teachers house or whatever. Numerous prank calls to random people in the phonebook, lmao!
Congratulations u are a gen x .
Lol You're on the very tale end of it but you're still a gen x. I think it stopped after. 1982 or -1984 I'm not sure which .
@@robd1859 haha, thanks. I think they call us "Xennials"
I was 11 years old when this was recorded. I was just finishing up 5th grade and headed into middle school with the big kids. In a way, I feel like this recording, or this time, was another life or another reality. I feel like we are living in an alternate reality.
🙌
Same age and feel the same way, sometimes I feel like the world picked the darkest timeline out of many possible alternate ones.
Like everything that was good and innocent was replaced by ego and wifi. Phones have done massive damage to humanity.
Preach dude, I feel the exact same way. This feels like some lost epoch in time, even though it was less than 40 years ago. It now feels like we are living in some dystopian nightmare.
We are living in a nightmare today in comparison
Born in 1970. I was 20 at the time this video was made. It's bittersweet - a great view of what life was like back then. Middle class families had such comfortable homes and lives whereas many young middle class families today can barely afford to put a roof over their heads.
Came from middle class and now a class 6 pipe welder making bank.
@@mandoky1647 Weird flex
Then that’s not middle class, at best it’s working class.
there is no middle class anymore, its dying out. Has been for a long time. Its now pretty much lower and upper. Very little in between.
exactly what I said. @@mosesesle3225
Please take me back to the 1990’s! It was the best time of my life! 😢
If this was recorded rn everyone would be on their phone ignoring each other 😢
@@Kurry34 Sad but true. 😢
I miss life without cell phones and computers. It forced us to communicate with each other in person. Now, technology is used to gaslight people into anger and division. I was 18 in 1990. This video is accurate. This life was not boring, it taught us to be more creative and get outside more.
o, media has been doing that since before the camera was invented. It just was less effective and more people turned it off.
I remember back when my mom bought Cable TV. We had it about a week and none of us kids watched it, so she cancelled it, lol.
Actually, the only thing media related that was really, I guess, interesting, is around 2010 to 2020 (I know my years are off a bit, and there is no "hard" line), the media monopoly was temporarily broken so you had large reach of extremely disparate views out there. It's kind of settling down and getting reigned in, tho.
Views that contradict main stream narratives are basically gone and are now trapped in their own little echo chambers.
Exactly couldn’t have said it better!!
Yet you are on a cell phone or computer using social media.
@@angelinaduganNyyes, keep perpetuating it
None was forced to not use cellphones that didn't exist 🤷♂️🤷♂️
Getting people's full attention when you talk to them seems so much better than how it is now
I was 23 when this was recorded. I grew up in the best generation. Kids will never again know this level of peace and freedom.
pretty much, sadly the collapse was already on it's way, tho. The laws were cemented in back in the '60's. That was the last time Americans put up any real fight for their way of life, and they lost.
@@l337pwnage Which laws?
@@RetroDawn Hart-Celler is what really put the nail in the coffin of the U.S.
Affirmative Action and a few others sped the collapse along, but laws like that can go back and forth. Abortion was made law by the courts in the Early '70's, which helped enshrine moral decadence.
The media memory holed them, but there were literal riots in communities all over that were trying to protect themselves.
The national guard forced kids at bayonet point to go to integrated schools.
I knew a guy who was force bussed. He was a big dude, so he did ok, but the girls were not so lucky. One of the favorite hobbies of future astronauts is they would line the hallway so girls would have to walk between them, then when they try, the astronauts would all rip off a piece of their clothing until they were running naked, screaming, and crying down the hallway.
@@l337pwnageIs this hearsay or something you witnessed firsthand?
Yeah, the world has become feminized.
It was the last era of the middle class, anyone who put in an honest days work and really wanted to could afford a modest home and give their children security and a future. We had a lot of common thread culturally that is gone thanks to politics. We used to use the term talking around the water cooler at work because everyone watched the same 5 tv shows every night and discussed it the next day at work. Now it's endless links to UA-cam videos and personalized content that limits our connection. What a treat though to watch. You're lucky these videos weren't tossed!
Nice! I was graduating high school. About to start the best 15 yrs of my life. Now....I'm 51. Time fxxing flies, for sure.
"For the people that will see..." Well, we see it, and if you were there, you know how glorious this footage is and what we've lost...
mullets?
True that. Just the feeling of the time is somthing I'm greatful to have known. Many Things nowadays they feel 'cheap' or 'false'.
I can’t believe this was 34 years ago.. I wonder how that house looks now and how many houses were built around it, crazy to think about !
Mullets are preferred over not understanding the difference between male and female. @@JokerFace090
Man, even a prank call! This is freaking classic. I was in high school 89 to 93, and this is a great example of life before smart phones. People just being who they are.
I got one once from some bully classmate who said I need to contact this other kid cuz her dad just died. It was summer and so wouldn't be seeing her at school, and she didn't live near me. To this day I do not understand this prank. I did not try to contact her, and I don't remember if her dad really died. I also got some general prank calls where the kids would be laughing and hang up, or would ask some weird question, laugh and hang up.
Absolutely! Prank calls were definitely a classic form of entertainment before the widespread use of smartphones and caller ID. It's a fun reminder of a simpler time when people relied on landline telephones and had more opportunities for spontaneous and playful interactions. Back then, technology didn't play as integral a role in our daily lives, allowing people to be more present and authentic in their interactions. It's always enjoyable to reminisce about those moments and appreciate the unique charm they had.
wanna hear a prank? here's an ex-friend:
Those teased bangs!!
@@MeMeVoyageOf Better than flat!
Born in 1975 and raised in downtown Los Angeles, 80’s where the best decade EVER!
LA was better back then. Now it’s occupied with illegals and the current CA Governor is a tragedy.
This nostalgia must be preserved for the future of humanity.
Absolutely.
Those of us that got to grow up late 70s through early 90s truly are lucky... i wouldn't trade those memories for anything... salute to all the gen x people out there.. never forget those days
Never.....
Amen to that!! Born 1966...
Born in 1969 and I'm so happy I grew up when I did! Life in the '80s and '90s was so much fun that I tell my kids they have no idea what they missed. Peace and prosperity in America and no social media--what a time!
Boy, you are right on that. I got my old videos from that time too. Really something to see.
Born in 78, I would give anything to go back to the 80's and 90's!
"who's it for?"
"for the people that will see it"
33 yrs and 574k views later...
This guy is a man ahead of his time.
Right. I feel like a UA-camr was doing this. Lol
😂Facts
I really like how the girl said just the neighborhood would see the video. Little did she know...
The world is going to see it, far in the future.
Truly a visionary!
Born in 1973, so I was a high schooler at the same time as these kids. The scene is exactly how I remember - not a parent or a cell phone in sight! The “do you know” bit is from an old Spike Lee Nike commercial.
almost hurts to watch- I want that back soooo bad
I dont know if anything is sadder than knowing these days will just continue to fade farther into the past 😔
that's what old people always say..
Do you know that I often think the exact same thing?
They're not coming back but only becoming more distant
@TheTherealbadboy Yea, it's such a sad feeling.
@@noirekuroraigami2270the old people were right.
I wasnt alive in the 60s 70s and 80s but I genuinely believe those were the best times mankind will ever see, world wide. I think they were the luckiest people to EVER exist.
I did see the end of the 90s and same thing.. Its just the absolute truth imo. Older people lived in the luckiest happiest times on earth and its rarely recent in terms of time.
I now worry the peoplr who carry the same spirit of living in the 60s,70s are going to pass, and with that, the spirit of the time. 😢
It doesn't have to be sad.
Gen Xer here. I like how everyone is not expecting a video to be made. "Who's it for? Who's gonna see it?"
There is no default idea in anyone's mind that this video would really be seen by anyone, much less global potential on youtube.
Would love a followup video with all the people reacting watching themselves so many years ago.
After reading that I realize that the guys in high positions at that time were hiding the secret they knew was coming. "Shhh don't tell them that youtube will be around soon and they will be able to put videos there"
That is the first thing I noticed as well! Like who would ever see this? Just could not understand the concept of videos being made public.
We all made videos to watch ourselves. We didn't care if anybody else saw them. It was for us, not anybody else. @@Mandy_XO
Wood paneled houses, Toilet seat rugs, girls wearing the giant “Beach Bum” shirts, guys with mullets, Nut’n Honey quoted in passing- and much more I remember. Was 16 in April of 90- in Michigan driving my 82 Caddy everywhere with nowhere to go.
Post Vietnam (75 or so) up to 9/11 was a sweet spot to be a kid…
This is like time travel.
I love it.
I love how she built her hair up higher when she realized she was being filmed 😂 born in 81 and I vaguely remember when having really high hair or a “wave” as we called it in Hawaii was a point of absolute pride lol..good times, and great video
Yeah, I thought that a cute moment, too. I definitely knew girls like that.
Love how she patted it to measure how high it was
It's that rainbow bang we all coveted back then. Never could get mine to look right. lol
Yeah I think it's awesome I was born in 82 but it really makes me miss those days now it would be all 3 people would be standing in silence scrolling on their phone
The hair tease! I have a friend who still rocks hers' to this day! I still think 80's chicks were the hottest ever created. lol
Ah the 90's... Little did we know that the world was going to change so drastically in such a short amount of time... Such an innocent time really... Thank you for putting this up.
У нас примерно также было в начале 2000ых, у нас даже не было видеокамеры, в моëм селе это была роскошь и камера была лишь у единиц, Нинтендо была доступна, но это была пиратская приставка.
And not for the better.
You're absolutely right, the 90s were indeed a special time filled with innocence and a sense of wonder. It's fascinating how the world has transformed so rapidly since then, especially with the advent of technology and the internet. The simplicity and nostalgia of that era are something many people fondly remember. It's always nice to take a moment to reflect on those times and appreciate the unique charm they held. Thank you for sharing your thoughts, and I'm glad to have brought back some nostalgic memories for you!
innocent time? that was time of bombs in cars and wannabe gangsters with s class
Definitely not for the better. Only the sleepwalkers believe that good times are inbound. @@chrisa.515
I miss those days!
This reminds me of growing up in the 90s and having absolutely nothing to do on our days off from school. We just hung out with the other kids in the neighborhood and had to figure out ways to keep ourselves entertained.
There was absolutely nothing on TV. I think they did that on purpose honestly.
@@timtagsWasn't MTV, movies, cartoons, sitcoms, videogames enough to you?
My friend had an entire basement apartment to himself, he also had those t.v. descramblers that got all those movie channels and pron. We used to drink, smoke cigars, talk about chicks we wanted to hook up with, working out, riding bikes...etc. Best times of our lives. We were never home during the 90's, hanging out with other friends in other parts of the city, tagging up graffiti across the city, selling weed to buy beer, or going to the strip joint...etc.
Good times...
@@jimbotron70 sometimes but not all times
I'm Gen X but I had no idea how awesome Gen X actually is until a Gen Z guy told me! He said, "you're the only generation that has grown up with both all the old analog technologies AND the newer digital technologies." "Everyone else has either or."
I think that can be said about early GEN Y also. The difference being I think Gen X was spared from the addictions the digital age had to offer. Gen X having grown up outside had the ability to not get sucked into it so easily, whereas Y I feel was the beginning of kids not playing outside as much, getting sucked into chat rooms, video games that now had extensive storylines that glued you to the TV longer. Just my take. I still experienced analog thankfully, the very tail end of it.
@@Venkman00 My bad! I said Gen Z guy but meant Gen Y! Boy he really told me! So much attention to Gen Z these days that I automatically said Gen Z. Like Gen X; Gen Y gets lost in the narcicissm of Millennials and Gen Z's.
You do know Gen Y ARE millennials don’t you? They’re literally the same thing. Not to mention the vast majority can easily remember analog tech and the subsequent switch. Me being one of them.
@@gamingbytetv665 piggy backing off you, I just want to mention how many people in the comments claiming to be Gen X are actually Gen Y/Millennials lol
@justinentz-ip7bl the music AND the scene. That's what I feel bad about nowadays. No scene for the kids. We had HUGE parties 2 to 500 people and we all had a blast til the pigs showed up. Even then sometimes the pigs were cool. Man I get the good vibes just thinking about it. 5 bands 10 kegs all night. Was the best.
WOW!!!
I was born in '72 and my 11th grade year was almost over.
I remember 1990 like yesterday!
Now it's 33 years later.
Much as I love/miss the 90s, I miss the 80s more!
I was born in 74. I remember we had a new years eve bash in 79. The 80s were pretty awesome. The economy sucked, but luckily my mom & grandmother could sew. It was such an innocent time to be alive. I would love to go back. But I would like to be my age now. ❤😊
@@Parrotgirl-tattoo I actually remember 1979. January, Dukes of Hazzard premiered (pilot episode was shot late 1978) Watched every week til 1985.
Yep. WAY different times. My late dad lost his John Deere job when the first farm crisis hit in 1980. My late mom held it all together!
@@dentoldani3460 My mom did too! She got a job in the lunchroom at my school so we didnt have to be latch key kids. My grandmother lived next door & we had neighborhood friends. Freedom. That's what I miss the most. God bless you fellow gen xer. ❤🇺🇸
@@Parrotgirl-tattoo Hell yeah!!!
Sadly, I'm the only family member left.
Mom, dad, older brother, aunt, grandpa & grandma all long gone.
Lost both my parents during my 30s.
Dad 2005, mom 2012, brother 2014, aunt 1995, grandpa 1986 & grandma 1993.
My parents are in small urns next to each other in my bedroom closet.
The last time I saw my grandparents together was when they came here to Iowa for vacation when I was 10 in 1982.
72 gen X here too. I miss the 80ies and 90ies so much. Lost many friends and family since then. Tough. Right now, the world has gone insane. Clown world.
I miss the 80's and 90's we were truly free.
My oldest was 10 in 1990. His sister was 9, and my youngest son was 6. Now they are 43, 42, and 39. Those were the days of Nintendo, Walkmen, and playing outside. They had a treehouse with a slide. We knew all the neighborhood kids and their parents. The kids were either in school, or, outside playing football, softball, shooting hoops - or - inside playing video games or listening to music or both. Today, there aren't many kids close enough to play with for my grandchildren. They ride bikes, scooters, etc. in front of the house. Most of their time is spent on UA-cam, playing Minecraft, Mario games, etc. They all have iPads, Switch and Switch Lite portables, and they like my minivan because it has Wifi. I think my 90's kids had it better.
Im a bit younger than ur youngest child, we def are the last generation who had childhood without all the internet stuff.
Summer of 1990 we were 14, 12, 10 Please drop me off then.
NES at a friend's house in the neighbourhood and basketball at their yard. Their grandma would yell at us cause sometimes the ball went through the kitchen window and broke her stuff haha. Those were the days:D
I'm close enough to your kids' age to say we had it waaay better. Not all were "latchkey kids."My dad made a good enough living to work, so my mom stayed home. It was safe enough to go play without our moms hovering over us.I feel it was easier to make friends than it was for my son growing up.
Im the same age as your oldest 10/9/80 I turned 10 in 1990!
I was 14 years old when this was recorded and celebrated my 15th birthday 20 days later. I'd go back to those times right now. I was probably wearing a Metallica, Anthrax, or Testament t-shirt and rocking my long blond hair. Now you'd find me in a polo and rocking the baldness.
Yep,I turned 15 in 1990 and was rockin the same tshirts….take me back
I was 17 in 1990 and I had the mullet, Metallica, and Slayer shirts. Total headbanger, Thrash metal and Ninja Turtles fan at the time.
I'm also rocking the baldness. Lol
Notice there are no parents anywhere. The 80s were awesome like that.
GenX is known as the latch key kid generation.
I didn't even see my parents between 12/31/79 and 01/01/90. Rad times!
literally filmed 1990
this was the '90s bonehead
@@carloe8491the brother & sister would be smashin
I was 14 when this was recorded.... an emerging bass playing legend who at the time, was the only black kid in my neighborhood, who loved Metallica and The Cure.
I was born in 1969.. hands down. Gen X is the best Gen!!
I'm from the younger Gen X batch, born in 1979. The 80's were such a magical time to be a child, many of us carried that 80's mentality into our teenage years in the 90's, i did things like collecting cool soda cans to decorate my bedroom lol. This video shows the "social networking" of the time which was hanging out with friends at home or outside, whether we had cameras or not. My generation got to witness and experience the biggest leap in technology ever while being familiar with how things were before that, i didn't even have social media until my late 20's lol. Thank you for sharing your memories with the world, in a funny way they are woven into our collective memory.
I was born in 1921
1978 here, I’ve often considered the fact that we were among the last young adults to have clear memory of what the world was like, pre-world wide web.
Consequently how alien it might seem to anyone much younger. That’s why I have to hand it to the kids now who make a conscious decision to unplug, so that maybe they can experience life like we used to.
I miss the time when "lol" didn't exist, and I feel likewise about social media even though I'm here on social media leaving this comment. These comments and this video may now outlast every one of us alive today, depending on the future of UA-cam. Your words and mine may be read a thousand years hence if this technology is maintained so long.
You really have to wonder what the distant future will be like, given the state of civilization and technology today, don't you? Where nations, kingdoms and empires rose and fall constantly, now we have nations that endure for much longer and may well last until the earth becomes uninhabitable. This video and these comments may still exist when the sun reaches its red giant phase. They may be transported with human civilization into outer space and to new worlds.
Whatever happens, we lived at the dawn of much of the modern world, when computers and robots were invented and began to take over menial tasks from humans. We were here to witness the beginning of a future that will be totally different and unimaginable to those who lived and died before us. We are alive at, and witness to a watershed moment in the evolution of human civilization and technology.
It may also be that we are witnessing the beginning of the end of life on earth as we know it, unfortunately, due to the severe impacts our ever-growing civilization is having on it. We have already triggered a mass extinction event and the climate is changing rapidly. We may yet destroy ourselves and our animal companions within a short time on a geological and evolutionary timescale. In that case, no one will be around to remember or research this time or what came before it.
@@ericwood3709 even with the slight doom and gloom tone to your comment i still think humanity has survived the most grueling conditions and changes across centuries, and it will continue to do so for centuries to come. I'm sure this isn't the first attempt to wipe out humanity whether self inflicted, by design, or both. The only way i could forsee total destruction of our kind is facing the same fate as dinosaurs. We are experiencing stuff that if we went back in time to warn the kids in the video about what happens we probably would be labeled as insane or ridiculed to death, but it's what makes the current times fascinating, how much change we've already witnessed while still being young. I look forward to seeing how humanity as a whole deals with the changes in my lifetime, knowing some things about our nature at its core will remain unchanged.
@@Ciclopea2 I'm not generally that pessimistic, but I just don't know what to make of climate change yet. If we do enough damage to the climate, the planet may cease to be inhabitable for a long time to come. This is the first time in human history that we have been able to impact the earth so significantly, so it is wholly unique in our history and does not really have a historical analogue to point to. We are traveling out of control through uncharted territory. If we turn the earth into Venus II, we're literally cooked.
My teen years were the 80's so seeing this brings back memories of the styles and mood close to that time, can't believe it's been over 30 years, doesn't feel that long?
I was born in 85, I was 5 when this was filmed. The 90s hands down were the best years to be a kid. I’m 11 years older than my brother.. and it’s like two different worlds of how we grew up.
I remember our form of entertainment was using my friends CB radio and talking with anyone we came across 😂 mostly truckers I assume.
85 too, 90's millennials are def a bit different - I was finishing up a degree at around 26 so hung around younger millennials at the time 90-92 - they couldn't fathom that I could recall 9/11 happening lol. Granted yes they are in their 30s now too but at the time there was such a difference between 80's millennials and 90's millennials to me.
@@l2xsniper1 I’ll be 40 this coming month (84) and we were literally at the transition period. But we still knew an outside world, even into the late 90’s as computers were mostly used by tech savvy kids who wanted to explore the internet.
Tail end Millennials born in 1994 to 1996 have a completely different perspective and that is almost entirely because of technology. I see them constantly glued into their phones, and they had MySpace accounts when they probably shouldn’t have been on the social media site.
The part where she climbs up and starts leaning/knocking on the ceiling is a classic 90’s kid move.
My 4yr old kid does this on my bed now, he loves showing how tall he is
this was the move to bust out the second i made sure mom and dad were out of the house
@@nonamegonzalez5711yeah parents didn’t want you to touch the ceiling. 🤣
Parents would let you put a full blown sticker on the window.
What unbelievable foresight this kid (didn't even realize he) had doing this.
Whoda thunk it that 40+ years later millions of people could potentially view it and be SO nostalgic for the 80's. Thank you.
We were all videotaping everything back then. ;-) Just not everybody ends up posting it on UA-cam.
I remember me and my buddies filming us hdd sad aging out and riding bikes. It just sucks that the videotape we put it on got eaten by the vcr. We didn’t think much of it at the time but it stings now as if live to have it and put it up on UA-cam!
@@derp8575 My neighbor friend was always filming us doing whatever and we'd watch it during sleepovers.
@@buildingwithtrees2258 That sounds hot!
Not foresight so much as living and recording in the moment.
Born in '74 - love the video! The 80s were my highlight too - I loved that decade. So much fun and optimism! We'd have birthday parties at the roller rink, take our bikes out and go all over town. Every summer we played outside until dark - Kick the Can, Ghost in the Graveyard, you name it... we'd just hang-out at the neighbors' houses as everyone had multiple kids your age who you could play with. We'd play in the woods - build tree houses. We ate plenty of junk food but never got fat. Everyone was healthier and happier. I'm not just saying that - they were. Once the 90's came things took a darker turn...and it's just been downhill ever since unfortunately. The internet has robbed us of a lot. It gave us a lot - but it equally took a lot.
Yeah I can definitely say growing up in the eighties things were definitely different . We didn't have all this forensic science. And we didn't have high definition security cameras. So it was quite easy for some to commit a really violent crime And actually get away with it quite easily.
Quite easy for people to do that now as well. Focusing on stuff like this means you didn't make the best of the wonderful eras you had access to.@@robd1859
76! 1990s were the first time I started to have any type of stability.
Was great, just had to be home or call my mom by dinner. Lots of freedom that most American kids nowadays will never know.
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I so agree to you. Born 92 but i can only imagine how it was prior to that. Had a really good childhood but everything changed progressively after 2000. It breaks my heart.
Damn. I was 15 in 1990. Born in 75. No era like the 80s and early 90s. It’s amazing how comfortable everyone is no one is trying to be something they are not. Would be awesome to see an interview with these guys as adults
I was born in 1980 , thank you for the trip back to the good old days 😊
Same. It was a great year to be born in.
The beauty of it is this and any footage from the 80s 90s will always surpass what's on today.
Amen to that! LOL
Yeah everything is too clean now, it’s nice, but it doesn’t feel as homey
1990 ..I was 9 years old..some of the best family times and best times being a kid. Bmx bikes, Ninja turtles and video games .. food still tasted real. Even the junk food was better shopping malls were still a great weekend event...the NBA was at its peak … I could keep going.. I’d go back in an instant if I could
One of the best videos I've ever seen... no smartphones, no hate, just enjoying the moment as kids. That's what we miss today.
Holy shit! This looks like another planet.....a much better one than we have today.
I was 14 in 1990, so I get a lot of this. It's hard not to nod and say "Yep," when you hear the Michael Jordan/Spike Lee commercial references, Sega Genesis acknowledgement, etc. Nostalgia, man, nostalgia.
December 78 was when I was born. This totally brings back what hanging out with my older brother and his friends was like. Omg. I miss it so much.
This is one of my favourite videos on UA-cam, not even kidding. There's something about this video, the 80's and 90's nostalgia, and the fact that Beth is absolutely beautiful (I hope her husband is an excellent husband, she deserves the world).
The people here all looked normal, happy and content. No serious mental health issues. No surgery that morphed someone into something they're not. No surgery to enhance their body parts (except steroids which was largely used by professional athletes).
Seeing this is nostalgia itself.
This video pops up in my timeline every so often. I was born in 76'. Kind of tough to watch. It's a powerful video somehow. It brings you right back. I miss those times.
I'm a Xennial and thus, I'm much younger than the kids in this video. But thanks to older siblings I was able to experience a little bit of this era and lifestyle, although we lived in a sort of bad neighborhood and our house wasn't as big.
Even just looking at the homes back then felt lived in, gritty, and authentic. Every modern development I see today looks drab, ugly and forced, with the same interior designs and colors. They look soulless and lifeless.
We'll never see anything like the late 80's/early 90's again.
Man, ill be forever grateful i grew up in the 90s. I wont get into the cliche of "my generation vs your generation" , but in a world that seems so far away from what it was just 24 years ago, Its the one part of my life that I treasure more than anything, because I got to expierience something that unfortunately doesnt exist anymore.
I totally agree!
I feel the same way
It exist in/as us!
Yesssss
I cant tell you how important it was to do this. There are videos out there of people filming in supermarkets or movie rental stores and theyre all great records of the times. Fun to go back and look at. Great work, great foresight
you have any links to those videos?
Vampire Robot on UA-cam has a lot of 90s videos
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The moment you walk into the sunset-lit room feels like something straight from liminal spaces. I almost feel it, like distant memory. Powerful.
Truly 80s - look at the 70s wood paneling ! This is how it was for most of us growing up in the 80s. :)
Time machines are incredible. This video blew me away. Overwhelmed by memories. Night.
Back when parents had no clue just how close their home became to a setting for Lord of the Flies while they were at work 😂.
😂😂😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
My cousins(girls) chased each other around with kitchen knives. Put a bunch of stab makers in the door to their room. Their dad threw the door away and wouldn't replace it. They also got their asses whooped. Lord of the Flies indeed.
My friends running around my family room with torches made from Bic lighters and aqua net. The beers, the VHS pornography. All before 5:45pm.
😂😂
I was born in 85 so the 90s were my early childhood days. I loved it back then. Always outside playing with friends, riding bikes and exploring places. Times really have changed for the worse in my opinion
We were the last ones.
Yep
Just remember to come home when the street lights come on.
if your born in 85 your a millinial
@@Kamandi1971 lol these early 80s millennials want to be Gen X so badly,
I was born in '75 and this video hits you right in the feels! I miss the 90's, definitely the best decade!
Me too! And so relatable!
'78 myself
It started out incredibly well, but I think culturally, by the end they were a disaster.
75 here too!
While the 90s were great, thr 80s were better
I was 15 in '90. What a great time! When I build my time machine, I'll take you guys with me.
drop me off at 1978, I was in my 20s in the 90s, actually from 1978 to 1988 was the peak of America. it started a slow decline in the beginning of the 90s and just kept accelerating to were we are now, Orwellian authoritarian dictatorship with no freedom.
Don't forgive about me!😊
The tard bit had me in tears. Oh the good old days…we didnt even realize at the time how lucky we were
=P
"In tears" 😂 Jesus
Born in 74 here. Closest thing to social media for us kids back then was the mall. It had roller skating and a movie theatre as well as the arcade and food court. Across the parking lot was bowling. No bars nearby meant mostly just us teens in the area. Thousands of us just there to basically gossip, eat, buy clothes, comics and music, play video games and to get a feel for how everybody else is doing and feeling.
I miss humanity the way it was back then.
Are you Buckethead?
@@AlexDroog71 no sir but great eye, Buckethead was borne in 69 I think but I have his yearbook photo as my thumbnail. I’m a big fan, like your good self.
@@chillmurray7529 My older siblings back then went to the arcades. Apart from the employees, there was no parental supervision.
I remember a year after this was recorded, Street Fighter II hit the arcades and there were loads of teens throwing thousands of quarters into that fighting arcade cabinet. It was like nothing I ever saw before.
As a fellow gen-Xer, I thank you for sharing! A unique yet typical glimpse of life back then! it seems like this was made to be put on UA-cam 30 years later. The commentary is classic.
Having a TV in your room back then as a kid you were living large
@@weedthepeople2795 Nah, a lot of kids had them. Not sure how many kids had them in the 80s. I'd say a lot. But it was definitely common in the 90s.
@@Laidengizer113 lol then me and you grew up in different neighborhoods.....but I am more of an 80s kid I was driving by 1990.....in the 80s if you were a kid and had a TV in your room your parents were rich
@@weedthepeople2795 Don't want to make it sound like this is what I'm going off of, but I'm watching something on Nightmare on Elm Street right now and I remember the kids having TVs in the rooms in that movie. But I know, it was a movie.
Anyway, I was too young in the 80s to really say what was what. Kids my age definitely didn't have TVs in their rooms usually. However, I did know some kids who shared a room together and had a TV and Nintendo in the room. And at the end of 90, I met someone who had a TV in his room as well. Then in the following spring, my dad made the decision to give me his TV for my room, because me and my sister would often be on the living room television playing Nintendo in the evening when he wanted to watch the news. Just what I can remember right now.
@@weedthepeople2795 I'm late Gen X, almost a millennial, and can confirm this. It wasn't even so much about being rich or poor--it just wasn't common for any kid to have a TV in their room. There was one phone and one TV in a house for the family to share.
I was born in 1978...I'm so glad I grew up in the 80's and 90's ❤️
I was born in nineteen seventy six
10/1978 here. Time flew huh?
Another 1978 here.
The 90s were iconic, people were authentic back then unlike now where people follow the trends and everyone is fake.
It seems now that following trends, “supporting the current thing” and keeping up is the most important thing, socially.
I blame the Kardashians.
Crazy how the people seeing you film around the house were like “who is gonna see this or want to see this?”
Aaaaand nowww…. Here we are actually interested. Lol. Great stuff, dude!
Thanks! Yeah we had no idea of YT in the future.
@@JuicePod We had no idea 😂
If i had to trade UA-cam away for that simpler time, i would trade in a moment though 👍🏻
I hear ya!!@@lexingtonconcord8751
Yep, looks just like the house I grew up in! Born in '78, what a time it was to be alive!
Late 80's and early 90's were like its own mini decade. Its hard to explain unless you grew up in that time. I was also a Sega Genesis kid. I still have my Sega hooked up. Great video👍
Thank you thank you thank you ❤ Literally took me back. Me and your sister look the same age, well close. 1990 I was 11. So a little younger than her. But wow, what a great 90s house. You guys were surely blessed and had definite sibling love 💕 I love how weird it was back then to video record something. 😂 And now it’s the most common thing in the world. How sadly times have changed 😢
90’s houses actually looked gritty and lived in.
God we were total nerds back then, and simultaneously 10x cooler than we are today
Back when we didn't call ourselves nerds to seem hip. Look at the eyewear donned by generation text. If we had worn those Urkel glasses to school, well, you know.
So well put
As a GenX I dont know of any other time when PERSONAL lives have been so affected by change in such a short period of time. I grew up with 5 channels on the TV. No microwave. No computers,no cell phone. Kids played outside all day. I wasnt inundated with drugs or alcohol in every setting. I was safe in public.Things moved at a slower pace. Times were tuff but we always had the basics plus a bit more for special occasions. There was a peace, joy and innocence back then that is gone now. Children arent allowed to be children anymore. Its just so sad.
thats so true that everything feels like its moving fast as fuuuuck now
arent allowed to be children and wont grow up? i guess that means forever babies
Theybies. @@chrhadden
Wow because that's hilarious I was born in 95 and I can certainly tell you all of 1990 via fucking kindergarten they never shut up about drugs and alcohol it was rubbed in our fucking face on a continuous basis through the supposed education system.
I mean I can remember up through the early 90s onward school systems and local police departments wasted countless millions of dollars on nonsense like the Dare program.
You had a lot of parents that would not allow their children to be children with not necessarily allow them to grow and those parents happen to be Boomers and some of which were the elder genetics of course that only got worse as the 90s went on and yet today they're wanting to blame the very generation that they raised it's fucking stupid.
The nostalgic dick wag of back seat I mean I can say that yeah I think TV was a bit more interesting but then again I myself gave up on movies and television pretty much by the early 2000s basically because one day I'm sitting there realizing it's pretty much the same movie we've all been watching for 15 years so I'm not interested in the next Adam Sandler film that is literally going to be the same as Big Daddy they're just going to change around a couple of things and basically that was kind of the same with all the other films television basically the same thing everything became a rip off of Seinfeld and Frazier and wasn't half as good.
There are those that knock the music of the day yeah I can say I was never into the rap crap and or The hip Hop crap outside of a couple of novels hacks and I will say is that that crap isn't in my opinion music it's basically booming Bass with symbols going tick tick tick tick tick tack tickety tack tack and then some dumb motherfucker rambling over it.
As far as the rock music goes or just general pop music yeah I mean there's some decent stuff out there but a lot of people are wrapped up in the nostalgia of the past and so they either ever get beyond that to discover that there is still actual good music to be had and frankly quite a lot of it or are they on the hair snippets of it on a commercial somewhere and they can never find songs so they don't know anything about it.
And yes I can say that as far as video games go yeah it is my belief that they kind of suck now and that I blame on the online game online gaming is kind of cool but if you wanted to play the game itself via campaign mode they have basically a very small shit campaign mode and in many respects they neglect building that campaign mode into something super awesome because they're just trying to shove everybody into the online arena so for those of us who actually want to play the game it basically sucks.
And then of course a lot of people want to dickwag about not having cell phones back in the day etc well big deal because you had plenty of other technology to distract you a lot of people just simply buried their heads to the TV wow a lot of other people ran around with their headphones on via the Walkman or some portable CD player most of this complaints about the cell phone today I literally the same complaints about the technology of old from yesteryear.
Children still play outside it's largely the adults that won't let them out so good that you rarely ever see them unless they're on their way to school or on their way back home from school once in a blue in the parents will allow them to have a free day and it's like they might fly by on a bicycle but it's very rare I understand the world isn't as trustworthy is at once so I can understand why they would keep them close to home if not possibly in the house but you can't do that and then hop on the internet and bitch that the kids just play video games all day when that is literally the only option you have provided with.
In these nostalgic posts there's always a bunch of hypocritosism and a fuck ton of iron they bitch about how the children are in the house as if it's the children's decision to be in the house I remember I had a super Nintendo and an Atari from a flea market I bought an old commodore computer that at the time you can do much with but the bottom line is is I still had plenty of outdoor activities and I was never hurried to get out of the house I was always doing something I had a paper route when I was 10 I used that paper route to pick up business via mowing yards planting flowers shoveling snow I made banking and no I didn't work ungodly announced the hours to make that money either.
Honestly that's kind of my biggest complaint about today pretty much my biggest complaint about the past 16 years.
Cuz I can remember growing up in the 90s and nobody dick whacked about the hours they work nobody treated work as if it's a flex in fact I remember society was quite the opposite direction and that was fuck the employer that they only do it for the paycheck and the minute that they can't afford to do anything they're done I mean that was literally society sentiment back then frankly that existed in the mid-2000 but then by the time you get through 09 and 10 all the sudden everybody starts subscribing to the false religion of work ethic and now you have it to where everybody is obsessed with work to wear a lot of people have made their entire identity based on their job you cannot have a simple conversation with these people that they do not talk about work in some capacity or that they want to throw around the amount of hours that they work and then try to say that those who work less are lesser of people they're idiots frankly the rise of idiocy particularly when it comes to employment is unbelievable today.
And mostly what it boils down to is they don't understand inflation they're too stupid to realize that having to work that much more for what you could have obtained 5 years ago or what you could have maintained 5 years ago is in fact inflation of course many of these people have convinced themselves they don't have a choice.
So they're always looking for approval and of course social brownie points it's pretty interesting because a lot of these people are in the generations that constantly bitch about the everyone gets a trophy mentality except they walk around and want their trophy for simply having a job.
And many more of these morons seem to think that they should get a trophy for going to work sick and basically making everyone else sick somehow they've confused the tough guy mentality with absolute stupidity they can't distinguish what's between tough and what's stupid.
same as early gen y (born in 80s) prob 80s born kids were the last is the simpler way to put it. except by the time i was 12 i had sims1 and ff vii. and while it was awesome they became obsessions that i loved and hated at the same time. still skated though.
I was born in '71, this was a great time to be alive & grow up. I grew up with far less than these kids did, but we knew how to make what we had work. Parents didn't have a clue what we were up to & nobody really cared as long as we didn't burn the place down. Great video of a much more civilized age ;)
I asked one of my childhood friends recently what would we have done if we had cellphone cameras documenting our lives as teenagers in the 90s. His reply, "Prison."
Early millennial here and it was the same way. I remember just biking with my friends or siblings wherever whenever and as long as we were home for dinner it was cool. Sometimes we would do sleepovers at friends house and we would just call home on a land-line.
Internet really ruined kids freedom with news from everywhere. So parents thought kidnappings were common and ruined everything.
same here but if you knew people like these you could spend alot of time there.we all shared. we were all outside though
It's fantastic to hear that you have such fond memories of growing up during that time! The 70s and 80s were indeed characterized by a different lifestyle and social landscape compared to today. Many people back then experienced a sense of freedom and independence, with parents being less involved in their day-to-day activities. This freedom allowed for a different type of exploration, creativity, and self-reliance among children and teenagers. It's interesting to consider the changes in parenting styles and societal norms that have evolved over the years. While each era has its own unique challenges and advantages, reminiscing about the past can remind us of the simplicity and freedom that came with it. However, it's important to remember that every generation has its own experiences and struggles, and that the perception of a more "civilized" age is subjective.
Yeah because we got disciplined and had that bluff put in us. We had structure and our parents wasn't afraid to leave us, because we knew the consequences. We had those parents (at least I did), that wasn't gonna vouch for you if you messed up. You took your punishment, and if your over 50 today and are still prison free, say.....Thank God, for good parents....
So crazy how the clothes came full circle. Everyone wearing tie dyes and bicycle shorts and oversized tee’s today. I don’t think the hair is coming back lol. So smart taking a video like this. Wish more people did that. Thank you.
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This video makes me miss the 80s and 90s even more…. 😩 You just had to be there to experience it. There wasn’t so much pressure and division from social media, people didn’t take things as seriously as they do now, and music was amazing! I could go on and on. Great times. Thanks for this!
Me too…so bad! I graduated in 1990..so miss those days
Man, this vid is making me feel old. I was in high school in 1990. The 80’s and 90’s were an awesome time. We’re the last generation of feral kids. No iPhones, social media, ect. The camera this kid used wasn’t cheap as camcorders in 1990 were pricey. A generation of kids who knew how to have fun and could entertain ourselves for hours. I miss how vividly colorful the 80’s and early 90’s was too.
I have always said the 80s/early 90s were the best time to be a feral kid. ✌😺👍
I was such a rebellious kid at 15-20. I was never home, club kid, used to sell weed and switchblades that I got cheap to resell to pay for things, fix stereo's speakers to sell, would make mix tapes for friends. I recall I traded my last switchblade knife to a friend for a mountain bike, that was my mode of transport for many years, and never wore helmets. Life was so free back then, we had the best of both worlds, no parental supervision like the boomers had and better tech like double deck cassette radios, walkman's, CD's and T.V. descramblers that could get Pay Per view movies and Pron for free. LOL Best friggin' times was the entire decade of the 90's, so many party's, so much booze, getting in to strip joints, my friends cousin was like 10 years older and was a mechanic so he made so much money. This guy was the best, he knew we were broke teens so he would take us to the strip bars, pay for drinks and lap dances, so many girls. 90's chicks were so cool, friendly, wanted to fool around and were loyal. Sucks life has to change.
90s kid here. That camcorder was probably either the parents (maybe) but he could also have gotten it from one of his clubs at school, notably yearbook or newspaper.
I got to use one of the first digital cameras and it was several thousand dollars. I was in yearbook class. Yes I abused the privilege and did a lot of stuff like this.
Lol you're really not. This footage and I are around the same age and technology and social media really didn't start to take off until my early 20s.
I was born 1977 and this video is epic to me. The good old 90's. Kids these days needs to watch videos like this to see what we went through.
76, this is awesome
"What we went through." - LOL! It wasn't a war.
Kids today seeing the old analogue TV and the VHS videos. No digital flat screen TVs in sight.
@@joemcconnell2674 heh, still got one of those. Turns out video games play better on them because analog signal is quicker, it's also the only way to get retro light gun games to work.
80s kid here. The '90s were cool, but being an '80s kid was the best. Nothing will ever compare to that era.🥰
I have a friend from high school I am still in contact with. Back in the mid 80's when we turned 16 and started to drive he had one of the old video cameras that you had to carry the VCR along with you. We'd plug it into a big old DC to AC transformer and drive all over the place taping everything and every one we saw. I really have to convince him to capture some of that stuff and put it online. Video cameras were pretty rare in the mid 80's so when people saw you with one they figured you had to be important. I remember putting on a jacket and tie and showing up at a local McDonalds and managed to convince them I was an intern and we were with the local TV station doing a story. Managed to get the manager to give us a complete tour and get free food.
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yea plz convince him!!
Growing up Gen X was Amazing,and most of us at the time didnt realize that we were living in a Time that would greatly change soon..I would give anything to be able to live back then again....Class of 1990
I am class of 1990, as well. What an amazing time to be alive!😊
I love this! There’s no way, these kids could’ve ever dreamed this would have far more than a quarter of a million views.
It's hitting a nerve with people I think because it's only a month later and it's already at over half a million.
Espcially when sister and brother say maybe only the block would watch it 😂
It would be neat to get the sister‘s point of view on this now.
I miss life like this so much.
Man, it's like stepping back in time, the 80s and 90s were the good ole days for me.
i wish i could climb through the screen and be back in the 80s
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Who would have imagined that this video would be seen by half a million people over 30 years later!
902,545 viewers in september 2024
Ah yes the 90's nostalgia. 90's was a blast, clubbing & bar hoping, goin to blockbuster. U can't beat the 80/90's movies & music.
I was a 70/80s' kid & I'd love to go back in time before technology took over our lives.
I wonder if the sister is still with her boyfriend?
Great video I loved those days I was 10 years old in 1990 and sure miss the Cowboys of Dallas playing in Super Bowls
I was four years old when this was filmed. Born in 86. Man I miss the 90s so much! It was the last best time to be a kid. No social media, no internet just everyone together finding ways to entertain themselves.
Time is a cruel master.
damn... its 2023, and here youtube decides to play me some random strangers home video from the 90s that just floors me with this intense nostalgic feeling.
i was born in 1978, this video brought me back... this was a special time!
kinda makes me sad, it sort of feels like something was lost around when the 90s ended, like the world is not real anymore.
before each decade was so unique in so many ways, just looking at a picture gives a 1000 clues as to when it was taken...
after we hit the millennium this is fading, now it feels like the decades and the clues that separate them is the increased level of insane and disconnected behavior displayed by each generation!
or maybe i just woke up and smelled the shit as i turn in to an old fart... 🤔
The next 10 years are going to get far, far more surreal, as AI and genetic engineering advance at insane paces.
You can already get black market gene editing for everything from muscle growth to increased memory and intelligence.
Thank you for capturing my own feelings about this so eloquently and evocatively!
5.5 billion received a human hardware update. Embalmers started discovering 'white fibrous structures' while embalming cadavers in 2021. Excess deaths have been on the rise since that year. Experts are baffled. It's a real mind bender.@@Valchrist1313
Also 1978 here. We were 12 then. I wish I could go back.
the pace of the world was SO slow back then - I mean you literally felt like you had the whole day to do everything. Now its like you go out grocery shopping for an hour and the day is over.