I wasn’t born in the 80’s, but my mom talks so fondly of that time. I love watching documentaries with my mom, it makes her so happy. I’m going to watch it with her, hopefully she likes it!
The 80's were the last of the "old school" decades. We were still innocent (kind of) there was no internet and kids played outside and rode their bikes. What I would give to go back and relive just one Saturday morning in July in the 80's.
I grew up in a rural town in the 80's, and I remember the summers, staying outside all day long, only coming back home for supper. No cell phones, no public internet. Only four channels on TV. Read a lot of books on rainy days. Such different times.
@@athenian221 There was more rural America back then, but yeah, certainly there are a lot of people that grew up in Suburban or Urban neighborhoods. It's unlikely there was much TV for anyone though, as the main channels were ABC, NBC, CBS, and PBS. Later there was Fox. That meant a lot of other activities in the outdoors.
I remember doing a computer course late 1998. I was pretty much computer illiterate. The first computer I used was in 1999. I think the world got really techy after the introduction of smart phones. Very different world now compared to the 70s 80s and 90s.
I sure do miss the 80’s... time sure does fly when you’re having a great time! For any young people watching this, cherish your youth, don’t take anyone or anything for granted, and live life to the fullest, and don’t forget to call your mother!
We watched TV in the company of others in 1980. Now everybody is in their own world, on their own ridiculously tiny, tyrannical screen. For what purpose? To be better connected? We used to watch The Muppet Show. We used to laugh. It was called light entertainment. Now it's all misery guts box sets and botched sex. CSI this and CSI that! No wonder the leaders of Iran think the West is a world of amoral gluttony. It does not help that what is good and worthwhile artistically is pushed away from the cultural foreground in the morass of the internet era. In the 80s American and British pop and rock music brought down, at least helped to, the Berlin Wall. The Eastern Europeans wanted their freedom. They wanted fun. There was not even an internet or mobile phones in the 80s.
@Despiser Despised Why bring politics into a comment about how the video is useful for future education? By saying that, you're polarizing the left and right for no good reason - it causes more divide. Come on now, please focus on the positive outcomes of content like this rather than focusing on a specific hypothetical situation where the content gets censored.
Since I grew up in the 80s, being born in 72, this video was so nostalgic and entertaining! I always view the 80s as the greatest decade to grow up in(I'm aware that's by biased youth talking). I'm lucky that I still have a core of friends that I grew up with and still see a few times a year; we always have to fire up some 80s rock and metal! Thanks Weird History, I eagerly await the 81 timeline!
Евгений Увин I’m still friends with the ppl I grew up with and see them on regular I find it weird that you seem to find this weird 🤷♀️I guess it can depend where you grown up
It went downhill because of OUR generations (I'm older than you). We sold out to corporate greed that sent everything to China. We created constant fear in children. We passed 1,000 'safety laws' that made everything, apart from the vapid shit of Reddit, Tik Tok and Twitter, a safety hazard to be eliminated. Imagine having to have an adult chaperone to go to the mall at 16? Imagine that you could ride your bike to football practice without mommy coming along so the coach won't yell at you? My/our generation played like motherfuckers and then made sure the next generation couldn't.
It started going down by 1985. To be truthful, it started going down in the mid 1970's. The lack of morals started in the 70's and kept getting worse as the decades passed.
Being born in the 80s gave us an analogue childhood and a digital adulthood, an appreciation of both yet witness to the limitations of each period also.
Right! I've often said, "The '80s was the first digital decade" - although they weren't entirely digital. There was still plenty of analog to enjoy. The new digital stuff was amazing because it was the first time in history those things had ever been experienced, but they were *enhancements* to your normalcy which you could choose to embrace or avoid as your mood dictated. The biggest mistake was to falsely believe "If it's digital, it's better." The *quality* of audio on vinyl is vastly superior to that of any 16-bit CD which inherently sounds brittle and harsh in comparison - but vinyl has "surface noise" which CDs didn't have unless the artist intentionally added it. So what's best? Today there are such things as "hi-res" 24-bit "vinyl rips" which are the best of both worlds. You get the convenience of digital with the quality of vinyl - and if they're made well, none of the clicks and pops.
I can remember being a kid in the 70s. Science-fiction with futuristic robots and computers were everywhere except in real life! :-D Groups like Kraftwerk were blazing new trails, giving glimpses of what the future promised to bring - and that was awesome - but real life in general was still 100% analogue, until the 1980s happened... Suddenly everything was a glorious mix of analogue and digital... and WOW! what a cool diversity of pleasures came with all of that!
I was in high school. Class of 82. Man, those were the best days ever. Kids are missing out growing up today. They think they have more, but they’re literally living in a nightmare.
I MISS THE 1980'S 1980- 1984 MY HIGH SCHOOL YEAR'S. WHAT A FANTASTIC DECADE. I WAS 17 YRS OLD AN HAD THE WORLD AHEAD OF ME, NOW I'M 54 YRS OLD AN HATING ALMOST EVERY DAY JUST WISH I COULD GO BACK AND STAY ANYTIME AFTER 1984. THE MUSIC, T.V, MOVIE'S AN PEOPLE I MISS THE MOST.
1980 to 1986 the best years of my life... I to am 54 and soooo miss the 80's and would gladly pay to go back and never leave the 80"s... My Mother, Father, Sister and Brother would still be alive...
The most interesting part about the 80s was the music and how people were listening to it and making dance moves. I think many people had a lot of culture into it, and many people living during that decade will still remember how 80s music inspired them to this day.
We're the last people born before the tech age. We'll be the last people to remember a world before we were all connected to devices all the time, everywhere. Granted, I Love being able to watch whatever movie or show I can think of at any time, or having all of human knowledge in my pocket, the answer to any question just a few clicks away... but I'd still take the old world, no question. Things were real, people were real, and we were a Lot happier.
I love the 80's. Gallon of milk was $1. No traffic, great musics, Saturday morning cartoons, after school cartoons, hanging out with friends, playing in front of the house, fighting over toys in cereal box, color TVs. Makes me wanted to cry thinking about it. Time really flys.
Ratanak- you hit the nail on the head..I was born in 1971 and miss playing with my Tonka toys in dirt pile..Saturday morning cartoons were the best. Watched from 8am til around noon..lol
All Hell has been breaking loose for a long time. 1980 was a train wreck. Yeah, 2020 is extra special awful and the country is spiraling, I admit that. But I'm still better off than I was in 1980.
Not really. I was 10 turning 11 in 1980. Everyone talked about how crummy it was and how the state of the world had never been so bad. Inflation was skyrocketing, the economy was tanking, innner cities were falling apart, cocaine was everywhere, unemployoment was rampant, Iranian fundamentalists were embarrassing the U.S., the President was unable to lead the country, the government was corrupt, John Lennon was killed -- everyone talked about 1980 like it was the worst year ever.
They missed the death of AC/DC frontman Bon Scott and within 2 months the band would find a new singer and go on and record Back In Black the biggest selling hard rock album of all time
The 80's is one of the greatest decades of America. It was rich, glamorous, luxurious, hedonistic, and liberated. Everyone seemed happy and contented. It was a totally different time compared to the present, where everyone is very sensitive, indifferent, sad, bitter, and poor.
Well, there was the feeling that pop/rock music could change the world. The Communists of Eastern Europe worried about the effect of American and British pop and rock music on their young people. And that music played a not insignificant part in helping to bring down the Berlin Wall, in 1989. But in the internet age, pop music is shallower and diminished than ever before. The pop music in the cultural foreground is pitiful in terms of quality, and no longer do we believe that light entertainment can influence America's purported enemies today --- they see how the arts and entertainments that 'pop up' are messy, crude, miserable. Cynicism brews and young kids out with their parents must be vexed by the pop beats booming out of everywhere. (In the 70s, the pop music by contrast sounded magical to our ears as youngsters). And why is it like that? The morass of the internet has made what is good and worthwhile barely visible, and invisible in a cultural foreground. And so what with all this beeping and singing and dancing technology, we have forgotten how to laugh and console ourselves. No longer do we even watch TV in the company of others, but alone, on essentially a tiny screen. We have lost the courage to stand up and say "I love The Muppet Show!" And newcomers to Western shores, many traditional and conservative by taste, must be bewildered by our obsession with facile, inane 'music', 'Hollywood movies', 'silly, smutty sitcoms', and 'flesh-exposing dance shows'. I mean, whatever happened to Elvis? To 'Singing In The Rain"? To films like Tootsie? To just grand entertainment? It's all gone to pot. And I think that technology is largely to blame. It has usurped entertainment and become an end in itself. Don't get me started on headphones. Nobody knows what binds us all, really.
I can guarantee there were people in the eighties saying the same about the fifties and sixties. Take off the nostalgia goggles and enjoy what your own time has to offer.
I feel and get what you mean. Though I was born in the 90s and in Nigeria, I can tell that these present times really lack the dangerous freedom, vibrancy and free spiritedness and unifying joy that defined the 80s
@@petros0323 You cannot believe how many times I've heard people your age say the exact same thing, thus proving it *is* possible to have nostalgia for a time you didn't personally experience. The *good* thing about the 1980s is you are now on equal footing with all of us. Even those of us who "were there" can no longer experience them any differently than you can. For the past 30 years they have only existed in the audio and video recordings we were able to capture and preserve for those we knew would come later. Enjoy!
in 1980 i was 29 years old living in austin, texas....a 10 speed english racer was my main transport...my home phone had a 20 foot long cord so i could walk around the house talking.....no computer at all in my life.....outdoor pay phones everywhere..... was into the music of the cars, devo, ....a kilo of good weed was $200....was safe to ride a bicycle everywhere in austin.....ALL of that has changed except the nusic,....... still like the cars and devo,,,,, i am 69 years old now....have truly enjoyed my time here on earth...
@@stmn346 what has ruined austin is the spread of rampant capitalism....albeit i did have a bumper sticker once that said....don't californicate texas....was back there in january of this year...bike riding there is a dumb thing to do now.........
You gotta admit, even though there was the war on drugs, AIDS, and the issue with the Soviet Union and Iran, the pop culture of the decade was amazing. There were more places for young people to go, movie theaters, malls, bowling alleys, record stores, etc and the only thing they were glued on the screen for was MTV. The fashion was more fun and expressive and men especially were more socially acceptable to wear certain things without any kind of stigma.
Umm.. Pacman craze was just as bad if not worse than Minecraft or Fornite now and that game took hold of not only elementary school kids but grown adults in their 20's, 30's, 40's, and 50's in arcades lol
Loved my childhood. The 80s were the best. Great movies, music, girls in Heels, and the belief that the good times were going to last forever. Damn good time to be an American.
$10.00 would go far back then. A full tank of gas. A carton of cigarettes. I used to smoke. A case of Busch beer. Clothing, Levi's jeans. Nowadays, $10.00 doesn't go far at all. Maybe a pizza. Maybe fast food. One pack of cigarettes.
No cell phones. No internet. Want to make a call? Get up and go where phone is in the house. Else get some coins and look for a public phone. Mailing orders. Do you remember that? Purchasing by sending a filled coupon. No one would mess with you. Privacy was a thing.
@@aquarius5719 Yes, I remember all that. Do you remember COD's? Cash on delivery? You didn't pay until it arrived at your door. That was nice. Layaway is gone. I loved getting to the last payment and getting all that stuff. Like at Kmart. It was like getting all that stuff for the last payment. Say like $10.00. It was just like Christmas year 'round. 😁
Another thing, there is a payphone near me. I don't think it works. It's one of the lower payphones that's on a pole. (It's a drive up payphone.) I should put a dime in it to see if it works. Do you remember the old phone booths? Like in that sitcom, "Get Smart?) 😁 I think those are gone now.
@@lewissmith345 Accurate. Except me. I hated the 80s. I don't know how people can forget how bad it was, especially if you look at it from the current perspective.
Here in the UK it was pretty grim in the first half of the 80`s. There was massive poverty, Unions striking causing mass job losses, institutionalized racism and sexism at every level of society and the constant threat that in less than 6 minutes your life could be over if the cold war went hot. The music and movies were pretty cool though.
Based on what my father tells me, he says the 80’s were a time where people got along and everyone was happy. Oh and did I forget how the music and movies were awesome and still are? People who lived in the 80’s were lucky sons of bitches lol
aah, the 80’s. I started high school in 1980, got married in 1985, joined the military in 1986, and had my first child in 1988. What a decade it was for me!
My oldest uncle was born in '46. I can remember when he was in his early 40s back in the late '80s. Now he's in his 70s and I'm in my 40s. That time flew.
I turned 24 in 1980, those were the best years ever! Being a Beatles fan from the first time I heard them, the Lennon murder still hits me hard. But really can’t deny it was the best of times!
I was 16 in 85, perfect time to be 16 is in the prime of the 80s. Did so much that year and got into so much drama! Lived in a neighborhood full of friend's. The creek was the number 1 hangout spot over the summer. Wish I was stuck in a endless loop of that summer!!!!
I don't know why it persist, most humans can barely manage to operate the grounded automobiles we have today even with helpful technology, do we really want to add in take off, landing, and aerial positioning into the mix? The only way it could ever work is a fully automated pilot.
The energy needed for flying cars is too much, when most people just need milk. Also, drunk drivers, in flying cars. No. Also, we already have 3D driving.
@@NashEsq I am so tired of people with the same, drab, flying car meme. People screech about it, all the time, right down to the very same comment " duur year 20XX: an Y no flying car?! Haha! Me so funny!" At least sensible people like you exist.
1980's theme songs were our daily household soundtrack. Loony toons songs on Saturday morning were pure joy and the MASH song (suicide is painless) meant bedtime..
Saturday morning cartoons were the best! (To this day, my husband and I still watch Looney Tunes.) When my dad was watching MASH, no one in the house was allowed to talk. LOL
Hard to believe 40 years ago already, I remember when it was NYE 1979 and then turning into 1980, I thought wow were in the 80's, how time goes by far too fast. Enjoy the good things in your life while you can.
Today we have comfortable technology but its its gotten out of hand . I rather live then and too bad theres not a machine that you could dream a decade of your life in 30 minutes.
I just wanna say... i envy everyone who was fortunate enough to live through the 80s and had a blast. I wish i was lucky enough to have lived through that decade as well… but unfortunately i was just born in 84. And yet is is still the decade i feel belonging to the most. The present sucks… the future looks bleak… let me go back please......
Cartoons being on every broadcast channel until lunchtime every Saturday morning instead of news on every channel probably made the country a better place. As someone born in ‘77, I can say with certainty that it made a better childhood.
@@nyema2807 As if we don't have drugs to be addicted to now. Anywhere there's been humans theres been drugs, hell ancient egyptians were smoking opium and drinking toxic flower water to get high.
Meh, I came here to roll my eyes at it. I was born in '72 and I'm so sick of hearing people claim one of the worst decades in history was so danged great!
I love this new segment!!!! Please keep it up. I’d love to see other decades afterwards. Before and after the 80’s. Thought the 80’s was a great decade to start this off. So much pop culture history!
The top ten songs of the year, according to Billboard's Year-End Singles chart, were: 10. The Rose- Bette Midler 9. It's Still Rock and Roll to Me- Billy Joel 8. Funkytown- Lipps Inc 7. Coming Up- Paul McCartney 6. Crazy Little Thing Called Love- Queen 5. Do That to Me One More Time- Captain & Tennille 4. Rock with You- Michael Jackson 3. Magic- Olivia Newton-John 2. Another Brick in the Wall, Part II- Pink Floyd 1. Call Me- Blondie
The Rose 🌹 the movie my gf and I saw at drive in. Call me was from American Gigelo which we saw at the drive in. I hear cause of the virus the drive in is coming back that is ok with me. We used to go every Friday
1980, I was 17 years old, my family had just lost everyting the prior year because of the communist revolution in our country and had moved to the U.S.A. in December 1979. By September 1980 my father decided to relocate to San Francisco where several cousins will help us to get back on our feet (and we sure did!). The '80s was our come back decade! And by the way, I remember reading about John Lennon's death getting out from the Muni subway in downtown San Francisco.
Loved being born in 1976 and growing up in the 80's No cell phones, no internet, barely any video games....at least those that didnt pull us away from our lives for hours at end. I was to busy being outside and exploring my town. I guess this is the generation gap. I long for the simpler times.
@@MorenoJ1973 the world has always had problems. Its just that now some of those problems are directly affecting you so you're paying more attention. Aren't we all at that. 2020 will be remembered most definitely for the historical and social events that have taken shape this year, whether you believe they're for better or worst.
@@askiavance3281 yeah, 50 to 80 million people died from the spanish flu and most people barely even know about it. corona has only killed 500 thousand and people are acting like its caesar crossing the rubicon.
2/19/1980 I was fifteen and the death of AC/DC singer Bon Scott absolutely crushed me as a musician. I’m 55 now and I still miss that guy. 1980 was a bad year for music. John Lennon was killed and John Bonham died.
No, they didn't mention what I heard about, in Jan. 1980 actor James Garner was beaten up by a man, and Garner pressed charges against him, and alot of fans were on his side.
@@joeschmoe8320 a robot will never have genuine emotions. a robot will never have consciousness. a robot will never be anything more then a set of algorithms, even those algorithms may be so complex we dont understand how they work, it will still always and forever be a dumb machine
This entire century has been nothing but disappointment after disappointment. From the way people treat each other to the ugliest cars ever to roll out of a factory. I have hated everything from 2000 forward.
@Kirk Moore there were not two presidential elections in 1980 hence Regan only won the one election. He would later win the 1984 election thus making it plural when talking about both elections but not when talking about only one election. Goofy
Wow!! This brought back so many memories for me. I was only 12 years old when these things happened. They are still some of my best years ever! Thank you so much for a great video 👍
The best decade. The right amount of technology, people were cool, and the entertainment was gold. 70s get a close second then 90s. Everything else was weird.
@Mirror Man I recommend the 1950s for your consideration. Life is about the interplay of order and change. The 1960s had too much change . . . which detracts from the appreciation of it. The 1950s had a more subtle (and therefore more interesting) interplay. Consider sexuality, for example. Lots of it in the 1960s. Was it a sexually more interesting decade (?) No . . . because the novelty of it was more intense in the 1950s.
And the best U.S. President in a hundred years, Ronald Reagan, who - with the help of Margaret Thatcher - won the Cold War, giving hundreds of millions of people freedom and the opportunity for democracy.
The 80s were the BEST decade ever with some of the most memorable/shocking/ events ever! Miami Vice, Michael Jackson, sports cars, McDLT, Star Wars, Ghost Busters, Back To The Future, Jason, Michael, Freddy, Rambo, Reagan, The Challenger disaster, The Berlin Wall, Mt. St. Helens, Atari, Pac-Man, Nintendo, Aqua Net, Dallas, Dynasty, The Dukes, Night Rider, SNL, etc. etc. etc.....
You early Gen Xers were mainly teens in the '80s. The only teen age I (as a late Gen Xer) experienced in the '80s was the age of 13 back in '89 and even then I remained that age well into nearly the first half of 1990. Most of my teen years were in the '90s.
I was 8 in 1980. My big brother that I idolized joined the Airforce. He taught me all about Kadafi and firearms, including target practice with 22 rifles on his leaves. I loved wearing my screen print Daisy Duke t- shirt and my fancy Nike tennis shoes. I spent every Sunday in the den watching Dale Earnhardt and Bill Elliott ruling Nascar. Wow.
I was never into sports as a kid but I remember everyone was glued to the television when the US was playing the USSR in hockey that year at the Olympics. It was about more than hockey and as a kid, even I watched with anticipation.
I turned 10 in the summer of 1980. The entire year was non stop amazing. Even as a kid you could feel the shift from the 70's to 80's. Every year after was just as good as the last. Oh yes! Empire Strikes Back!
Wow ' I never realized the cultural shift ' I think it happened slow over several years beginning around mid/late 70s into the early 80s ' this year was hardly any different to the latter 70s ' was a bigger difference by the middle decade ' looking at politics ' fashions and music in terms of.
Back when you still called it a "home computer" I remember wondering why in the hell would you want a computer in your house. Now we wear them on our wrists.
@@RiptideUrBadLol Joe used it!......As only JOE COULD! Why would you pay so much $ for a thing/electric that could....be a SHOPPING LIST! ...Telephone directory!.....and...more!! ?
Hey everyone, we have TIMELINE 1981 coming this Sunday.
Also, for everyone who asked - the intro song's name is "Ace Invader"
Thank you.
✨ 81' Baby here ✨
Can't wait!! Your videos are generally great, but this one was particularly awesome! Really like the format
yeee this is my birthday's year
@@ANITAACRUZ Same I was born on the 18th of June 1981-And my first memories is when was 3-So remember from summer of 1984 onwards :-)
Where you from?
it’s hard to believe that 2060 is closer to us than 1980.
Let’s try again, why don’t we
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Damn. Now I’m depressed!!!!
YOU JUST BLEW MY MINDDDDDD!!!! 👍👍👍👍👍
The population of earth was 4.3 billion in 1980 today its 7.8 billion by 2050 we will be a 11 billion mess.
June 1, 1980 - first date with my now wife. Still going strong 40 years later. A great year!
That's my parents wedding day. I was born in 81
How awesome, congrats on a long happy marriage 💜🙏 !!
__ Jolynn __ Thank you so much!!
@@jeffc820 your very welcome 😊 !!
Congrats sir.
I wasn’t born in the 80’s, but my mom talks so fondly of that time. I love watching documentaries with my mom, it makes her so happy. I’m going to watch it with her, hopefully she likes it!
You cherish every moment you have with your mother. Sadly i lost my mother to cancer almost 6 years ago. We were close as well.
The 80's were the last of the "old school" decades. We were still innocent (kind of) there was no internet and kids played outside and rode their bikes. What I would give to go back and relive just one Saturday morning in July in the 80's.
@@johntziannis359 I just lost my dad back in April.
@@antakiah Hell, I recommend videotaping those stories. That way you don't screw up the details, and you preserve her voice to boot.
@John Tziannis I’m sorry, hope your doing ok! And thank you, I will!
I grew up in a rural town in the 80's, and I remember the summers, staying outside all day long, only coming back home for supper. No cell phones, no public internet. Only four channels on TV. Read a lot of books on rainy days. Such different times.
Same here.
I think you're both describing how you were as kids. Not the era. Maybe you changed, not just the times.
@@athenian221 There was more rural America back then, but yeah, certainly there are a lot of people that grew up in Suburban or Urban neighborhoods. It's unlikely there was much TV for anyone though, as the main channels were ABC, NBC, CBS, and PBS. Later there was Fox. That meant a lot of other activities in the outdoors.
I remember doing a computer course late 1998. I was pretty much computer illiterate. The first computer I used was in 1999. I think the world got really techy after the introduction of smart phones. Very different world now compared to the 70s 80s and 90s.
The good old days. I feel sorry for the kids growing up now that think socializing starts and ends on tictoc.
I sure do miss the 80’s... time sure does fly when you’re having a great time! For any young people watching this, cherish your youth, don’t take anyone or anything for granted, and live life to the fullest, and don’t forget to call your mother!
That was a beautiful message.
Thank you 🙏🏽
F-that. I'm fine laying in bed and watching UA-cam all day.
Damn I got the chills while reading this. Thank you sir
I was born in 1980 so I turn 40 this year! YAY!!!
I miss the 80’s all the time. The music, the movies. Simple times...
Scott H Also decade of greed.
I remember all the valley girls requesting to be gagged with spoons.
We watched TV in the company of others in 1980. Now everybody is in their own world, on their own ridiculously tiny, tyrannical screen. For what purpose? To be better connected? We used to watch The Muppet Show. We used to laugh. It was called light entertainment. Now it's all misery guts box sets and botched sex. CSI this and CSI that!
No wonder the leaders of Iran think the West is a world of amoral gluttony. It does not help that what is good and worthwhile artistically is pushed away from the cultural foreground in the morass of the internet era. In the 80s American and British pop and rock music brought down, at least helped to, the Berlin Wall. The Eastern Europeans wanted their freedom. They wanted fun. There was not even an internet or mobile phones in the 80s.
@R4- P17 😂😂😂. AND GREED!! But! ' GREED is good '!!!! 😁
Yes. Those ‘’simple times’’ where stolen by a big spider : Internet 😌
this type of video and its predecessors prove to be invaluable to future generations so i just want to formerly say thank you
(Psst, it's formally ... unless you're a ghost)
@Despiser Despised Why bring politics into a comment about how the video is useful for future education? By saying that, you're polarizing the left and right for no good reason - it causes more divide. Come on now, please focus on the positive outcomes of content like this rather than focusing on a specific hypothetical situation where the content gets censored.
Always interesting, hope we can be friends
@Despiser Despised Why would they censor this video though? Was there something in it that is against what they want history to be?
Not really, if we learn about history, we can not make the same mistakes.
I was born in 1980. I still consider it one of the best decades and I'm glad I got to grow and evolve with everything it had to offer.
Born in 74. Those were the days ❤
My sister was born this year on Jan 30 ' I was 12.
Me too!
Since I grew up in the 80s, being born in 72, this video was so nostalgic and entertaining! I always view the 80s as the greatest decade to grow up in(I'm aware that's by biased youth talking). I'm lucky that I still have a core of friends that I grew up with and still see a few times a year; we always have to fire up some 80s rock and metal! Thanks Weird History, I eagerly await the 81 timeline!
my dad was born 1968 and grew up in the 70s and said that the 70s and 80s were crazy to grow up in
Same , good memories an your friends from your childhood/teen years I still see them all regularly always have same feeling on the memories
Евгений Увин I’m still friends with the ppl I grew up with and see them on regular I find it weird that you seem to find this weird 🤷♀️I guess it can depend where you grown up
no decade could beat the 80s even with the so called technology today, it's still way more fun in the 80s
@@mikeyyyy7896 I was born in 1968, too. I was just 12 yrs old in 1980.
Born in 78 the 80s and 90s were the absolute best ever, all went down hill in 2001 and America never been the same since
It went downhill because of OUR generations (I'm older than you). We sold out to corporate greed that sent everything to China. We created constant fear in children. We passed 1,000 'safety laws' that made everything, apart from the vapid shit of Reddit, Tik Tok and Twitter, a safety hazard to be eliminated. Imagine having to have an adult chaperone to go to the mall at 16? Imagine that you could ride your bike to football practice without mommy coming along so the coach won't yell at you? My/our generation played like motherfuckers and then made sure the next generation couldn't.
Your right
It started going down by 1985. To be truthful, it started going down in the mid 1970's. The lack of morals started in the 70's and kept getting worse as the decades passed.
I was only five years old A bittersweet decade for me.
Are you sure you don't just loathe adulthood?
Being born in the 80s gave us an analogue childhood and a digital adulthood, an appreciation of both yet witness to the limitations of each period also.
Very well said
I concur ✌️💙✨
What's next?
Right! I've often said, "The '80s was the first digital decade" - although they weren't entirely digital. There was still plenty of analog to enjoy. The new digital stuff was amazing because it was the first time in history those things had ever been experienced, but they were *enhancements* to your normalcy which you could choose to embrace or avoid as your mood dictated. The biggest mistake was to falsely believe "If it's digital, it's better." The *quality* of audio on vinyl is vastly superior to that of any 16-bit CD which inherently sounds brittle and harsh in comparison - but vinyl has "surface noise" which CDs didn't have unless the artist intentionally added it. So what's best? Today there are such things as "hi-res" 24-bit "vinyl rips" which are the best of both worlds. You get the convenience of digital with the quality of vinyl - and if they're made well, none of the clicks and pops.
I can remember being a kid in the 70s. Science-fiction with futuristic robots and computers were everywhere except in real life! :-D Groups like Kraftwerk were blazing new trails, giving glimpses of what the future promised to bring - and that was awesome - but real life in general was still 100% analogue, until the 1980s happened... Suddenly everything was a glorious mix of analogue and digital... and WOW! what a cool diversity of pleasures came with all of that!
I was 20 in 1980. I don’t think I had a better time in America than in the 80’s. It was a brilliant, fun and creative decade.
I was just born
I was in high school. Class of 82. Man, those were the best days ever. Kids are missing out growing up today. They think they have more, but they’re literally living in a nightmare.
@@Cwgrlup I know. You are right. I’m grateful to have grown up without the internet and social media. I don’t know how teenagers get through it alive.
I was 20 too miss that decade
Me and my wife was born this year.
I MISS THE 1980'S 1980- 1984 MY HIGH SCHOOL YEAR'S. WHAT A FANTASTIC DECADE. I WAS 17 YRS OLD AN HAD THE WORLD AHEAD OF ME, NOW I'M 54 YRS OLD AN HATING ALMOST EVERY DAY JUST WISH I COULD GO BACK AND STAY ANYTIME AFTER 1984. THE MUSIC, T.V, MOVIE'S AN PEOPLE I MISS THE MOST.
Me too
Same here,miss miss my high school yrs.
Agree. Ill be turning 54 this week. The best music too
1980 to 1986 the best years of my life... I to am 54 and soooo miss the 80's and would gladly pay to go back and never leave the 80"s... My Mother, Father, Sister and Brother would still be alive...
You just hate being old.
The most interesting part about the 80s was the music and how people were listening to it and making dance moves. I think many people had a lot of culture into it, and many people living during that decade will still remember how 80s music inspired them to this day.
Metalheads: *snapping necks with the music*
It was a great time for music. I was 20 in 1980 and studying music. I was definitely paying attention and making my own moves to the music.
And it's even more incredible how its music keeps up with the times even in 2020
Compared to the 90's 80's music were the best. Many bars and pubs still play classics from that decade.
Kind of like TikTok
I'm so lucky to have grown up in the 80s. Best decade ever.
70s and 80s for me. Loved it
Dawn Jensen was born in 74 so I remember like 2 yrs of the 70s 🤩💕💯
Folks Bell y’all 46?!
PillowPie Pie 45. Bday dec 8th. I’ll tell you what tho, I keep a decent diet & work out. I’m slim & could easily pass for 30
@@alpoenguec6341 I am 48.
I grew up in the 80s. The music, the TV shows and movies. So iconic. People were also more relaxed and not so up tight and offended about anything.
We were the coolest generation ever. Young people these days have mindrot from their cell phones.
We're the last people born before the tech age. We'll be the last people to remember a world before we were all connected to devices all the time, everywhere. Granted, I Love being able to watch whatever movie or show I can think of at any time, or having all of human knowledge in my pocket, the answer to any question just a few clicks away... but I'd still take the old world, no question. Things were real, people were real, and we were a Lot happier.
What are people offended over? I mean everyone has gotten offended but what makes this generation different
@@Cwgrlup "coolest generation ever" its literally not a competition stop.
No one cares about it Gen z comments sorry u all are not authentic at all@@athena4658
I turned 20 in 1980 and I can easily say it was my favorite decade to live in.
Your 60 years old
@@tonivoul1971 *You're
What do you think about 90s? I was bin in 97 just interested
@@irbisae4964 I liked the 90s way more then the 80s!
Way more!
80s was a great time for rock and metal in my opinion. We need the 80s back
I love the 80's. Gallon of milk was $1. No traffic, great musics, Saturday morning cartoons, after school cartoons, hanging out with friends, playing in front of the house, fighting over toys in cereal box, color TVs. Makes me wanted to cry thinking about it. Time really flys.
Like everyone I would give anything to go back to the 70s and 80s!!
Ratanak- you hit the nail on the head..I was born in 1971 and miss playing with my Tonka toys in dirt pile..Saturday morning cartoons were the best. Watched from 8am til around noon..lol
Me too😢😭
And minimum wage was $2.75/hr and gas $1.35/gal.
You don’t miss the 1980s, you just miss your childhood.
1980s: The time of our lives. Everyone’s happy.
2020: All hell is breaking loose. No one is happy with anything
2020 every one is a judge, jury and executioner. "Destroy someone's life cause they spoke bad things to me." Very strange behavior really.
Ur opinion is just opinion
Most people in the 80s thought they were seconds from ww3 with the Soviets
All Hell has been breaking loose for a long time. 1980 was a train wreck. Yeah, 2020 is extra special awful and the country is spiraling, I admit that. But I'm still better off than I was in 1980.
Not really. I was 10 turning 11 in 1980. Everyone talked about how crummy it was and how the state of the world had never been so bad. Inflation was skyrocketing, the economy was tanking, innner cities were falling apart, cocaine was everywhere, unemployoment was rampant, Iranian fundamentalists were embarrassing the U.S., the President was unable to lead the country, the government was corrupt, John Lennon was killed -- everyone talked about 1980 like it was the worst year ever.
I'm 21 watching this and always thought the 80s were so cool.
It was a pretty fun decade
They were,well for the 4 years I got to see of the 80s lol
@Caramel Cupcake
I hate the early 2000s tbh
@Caramel Cupcake
I just don't like the early 2000s aesthetic.
The fashion was horrible and the music was too.
@@Thattgirl6789 The 2000s weren't exclusively Y2K in aesthetic, just like how the 2010s weren't exclusively NewYork street style or VSCO
They missed the death of AC/DC frontman Bon Scott and within 2 months the band would find a new singer and go on and record Back In Black the biggest selling hard rock album of all time
This is mostly American though, and AC/DC was more of a Commonwealth phenomenon.
So sad about Bon Scott. May he Rest in Peace. ❤
Also forgot Alfred Hitchcock
1980 sad year for Rock and roll
@@alukuhito no they hit American air in 1980
The 80's is one of the greatest decades of America. It was rich, glamorous, luxurious, hedonistic, and liberated. Everyone seemed happy and contented.
It was a totally different time compared to the present, where everyone is very sensitive, indifferent, sad, bitter, and poor.
Well, there was the feeling that pop/rock music could change the world. The Communists of Eastern Europe worried about the effect of American and British pop and rock music on their young people. And that music played a not insignificant part in helping to bring down the Berlin Wall, in 1989. But in the internet age, pop music is shallower and diminished than ever before. The pop music in the cultural foreground is pitiful in terms of quality, and no longer do we believe that light entertainment can influence America's purported enemies today --- they see how the arts and entertainments that 'pop up' are messy, crude, miserable. Cynicism brews and young kids out with their parents must be vexed by the pop beats booming out of everywhere. (In the 70s, the pop music by contrast sounded magical to our ears as youngsters). And why is it like that? The morass of the internet has made what is good and worthwhile barely visible, and invisible in a cultural foreground. And so what with all this beeping and singing and dancing technology, we have forgotten how to laugh and console ourselves. No longer do we even watch TV in the company of others, but alone, on essentially a tiny screen. We have lost the courage to stand up and say "I love The Muppet Show!" And newcomers to Western shores, many traditional and conservative by taste, must be bewildered by our obsession with facile, inane 'music', 'Hollywood movies', 'silly, smutty sitcoms', and 'flesh-exposing dance shows'. I mean, whatever happened to Elvis? To 'Singing In The Rain"? To films like Tootsie? To just grand entertainment? It's all gone to pot. And I think that technology is largely to blame. It has usurped entertainment and become an end in itself. Don't get me started on headphones. Nobody knows what binds us all, really.
I can guarantee there were people in the eighties saying the same about the fifties and sixties. Take off the nostalgia goggles and enjoy what your own time has to offer.
I feel and get what you mean. Though I was born in the 90s and in Nigeria, I can tell that these present times really lack the dangerous freedom, vibrancy and free spiritedness and unifying joy that defined the 80s
Paying for all that now!!!
@@65tosspowertrapl36 One of the things I remember the most about the 80s was Billy Idol!, and the comming of MTV .
As much as I dislike getting older, I wouldn’t have traded being a teen in the 80’s for anything.
no doubt!!
As someone born in the 2000s, I wish I was born in the 80’s
I was born in 1980. Had an awesome childhood!!!
@@petros0323 You cannot believe how many times I've heard people your age say the exact same thing, thus proving it *is* possible to have nostalgia for a time you didn't personally experience. The *good* thing about the 1980s is you are now on equal footing with all of us. Even those of us who "were there" can no longer experience them any differently than you can. For the past 30 years they have only existed in the audio and video recordings we were able to capture and preserve for those we knew would come later. Enjoy!
We must be of the same generation 😉 Totally agreed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was born in 69, so all of your videos are sentimental flashbacks. Thank You.
Ahhhhhh, 1980's: got married, moved to Hawaii, met Tom Selleck, had two children (NOT by Tom Selleck!), gave up disco dancing, obviously...fun times!
Did you hook up with Tom Selleck
@@efraincastaneda3586 Hardly! I was a newlywed to someone else. Tom was a hunk though!
Best comment so far
But was Tom Selleck a nice guy or a major prick??
Damn you are old, I remember magnum p. I. But I was a toddler back then.
in 1980 i was 29 years old living in austin, texas....a 10 speed english racer was my main transport...my home phone had a 20 foot long cord so i could walk around the house talking.....no computer at all in my life.....outdoor pay phones everywhere..... was into the music of the cars, devo, ....a kilo of good weed was $200....was safe to ride a bicycle everywhere in austin.....ALL of that has changed except the nusic,....... still like the cars and devo,,,,, i am 69 years old now....have truly enjoyed my time here on earth...
Love how you use the price of pot as references lol like when they tell me what movie tickets used to cost. Enjoyed your comment cheers!
Why the metric system?
Yes. Austin was a wonderful little town.
Now it’s been ruined by the damn Californian liberals.
Miss the old Austin.
@@redstreet8012 because that was how pot was sold back then...
@@stmn346 what has ruined austin is the spread of rampant capitalism....albeit i did have a bumper sticker once that said....don't californicate texas....was back there in january of this year...bike riding there is a dumb thing to do now.........
You gotta admit, even though there was the war on drugs, AIDS, and the issue with the Soviet Union and Iran, the pop culture of the decade was amazing. There were more places for young people to go, movie theaters, malls, bowling alleys, record stores, etc and the only thing they were glued on the screen for was MTV. The fashion was more fun and expressive and men especially were more socially acceptable to wear certain things without any kind of stigma.
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Myke Carter well made video, the graphic really mesh with the song.
And dancing!!
Umm.. Pacman craze was just as bad if not worse than Minecraft or Fornite now and that game took hold of not only elementary school kids but grown adults in their 20's, 30's, 40's, and 50's in arcades lol
@Hati Hatab, YESSS!
Loved my childhood. The 80s were the best. Great movies, music, girls in Heels, and the belief that the good times were going to last forever. Damn good time to be an American.
Wish I could take all my money back to the 80s to live like a queen without social media
I would have bought Apple stock for sure.
$10.00 would go far back then. A full tank of gas. A carton of cigarettes. I used to smoke. A case of Busch beer. Clothing, Levi's jeans.
Nowadays, $10.00 doesn't go far at all. Maybe a pizza. Maybe fast food. One pack of cigarettes.
No cell phones. No internet.
Want to make a call? Get up and go where phone is in the house. Else get some coins and look for a public phone.
Mailing orders. Do you remember that? Purchasing by sending a filled coupon.
No one would mess with you. Privacy was a thing.
@@aquarius5719
Yes, I remember all that.
Do you remember COD's? Cash on delivery? You didn't pay until it arrived at your door.
That was nice.
Layaway is gone. I loved getting to the last payment and getting all that stuff. Like at Kmart. It was like getting all that stuff for the last payment. Say like $10.00.
It was just like Christmas year 'round. 😁
Another thing, there is a payphone near me. I don't think it works. It's one of the lower payphones that's on a pole. (It's a drive up payphone.) I should put a dime in it to see if it works.
Do you remember the old phone booths? Like in that sitcom, "Get Smart?) 😁 I think those are gone now.
Nothing was weird in the 80s, everything is weird now
This!
So true...
Thank you !!
maybe bec were use to the 80s rather than this day and age
AIDS in 1985
All the 80’s babies forming like Voltron to watch this!! This is amazingly good work. Can’t wait for the rest!
Went through High School and College during the 80's. It was a great time to be alive!
The cars, the music, and the movies. It just seemed like a happier time than now. When I build my time machine, it'll be back to the 70s or 80s.
Something ONLY white people will say
@@lewissmith345 Accurate. Except me. I hated the 80s. I don't know how people can forget how bad it was, especially if you look at it from the current perspective.
Here in the UK it was pretty grim in the first half of the 80`s. There was massive poverty, Unions striking causing mass job losses, institutionalized racism and sexism at every level of society and the constant threat that in less than 6 minutes your life could be over if the cold war went hot. The music and movies were pretty cool though.
Happier time for who?
Based on what my father tells me, he says the 80’s were a time where people got along and everyone was happy. Oh and did I forget how the music and movies were awesome and still are? People who lived in the 80’s were lucky sons of bitches lol
Best of times! 10 yrs old in '80. Biking to the arcades, listening to New Wave and watching lots of TV. #GenXersRule
I was 8..
I was 9 for most of 1980 and turned 10 in November 1980. Great, great times!!
I was 10, too! Good times!
I was 11. Such great memories of family and the times.
How are you doing over there Dale
What story from this 1980 Timeline would you like to see a full-story/video on?
Operation Eagle Claw would be awesome one
Operation Eagle Claw.
Drugs in the Netherlands
Jonestown Tragedy or the fall of the Atari Video Game Console of 85’.
It wasn’t mentioned but Hair bands a little segment on that would be awesome
aah, the 80’s. I started high school in 1980, got married in 1985, joined the military in 1986, and had my first child in 1988. What a decade it was for me!
@Conway Twitter 14? Holy shit!
MORE PLEASE! And for every year of the 80's!
1981 is next week!
Also 90s and 00s and 2010s
This comment deserves a thousand likes 👍 👏
This is definitely a good idea for upcoming content.
@@WeirdHistory Awesome! !!!
Just imagine what they'll say about 2020 if there's still America in 40 years
There won't be.
2020: CTRL + ALT + DELETE
Moral degradation destroyed Rome, and at the rate we're going, it's going to destroy the U.S. as well.
@@nicoleknight9412 As a historian of Graeco-Roman culture... no
The Americans turned on there own culture via propaganda from a far left media
My favorite was June 2nd. Walked out of the US Army alive after almost ten years. Thank You Lord...
That was the day I was born 3:50am
This was a special time for me. I turned 13 in 80. A wonderful time of my life 😊
How are you doing over there candice
I was born in 1967 also . . We started the 80's off by becoming teenagers and I found out that worked for me pretty well . . Hahaha 😂😂😂
It’s weird to think that forty years ago, 1940 was their 1980.
wow you legit blew my mind with that comment. crazy true
And we're halfway from 1940 to 2100.
The year John Lennon and Tom Jones were born (1940)
My oldest uncle was born in '46. I can remember when he was in his early 40s back in the late '80s. Now he's in his 70s and I'm in my 40s. That time flew.
I was born in 1980 now it's 2020 and I'm 40🐒.
The 80s were totally tubular! I wish I could go back to being a child.
Narly!
That comment is rad
I wish I could go back and live as an adult.
Gag me with a spoon.
@@Blue-de3tu Nice try.
The 1980's should never have ended. I miss all the great music, TV Shows, and MTV later in August, 1982.
I know!
How is that even possible?
👍🏼
I turned 24 in 1980, those were the best years ever! Being a Beatles fan from the first time I heard them, the Lennon murder still hits me hard. But really can’t deny it was the best of times!
That's funny Tony, back in 80 listening to people your age you'd think the first halve of the 70s were ultimate! LOL!
I know why...😂
@@OldHeathen1963 ???
@@OldHeathen1963What are you talking about?
My ears are still ringing from seeing AC/DC, Metallica, The Ramones, Van Halen, and all the other shows and concerts I went to back then.
That's cool dude
I saw the Ramones in 1987. I feel blessed, especially since only one is still living, I think.
Me too. Especially AC/DC. I saw them twice. And had "nosebleed seats."
The 80’s, before technology and social media ruined the world.
Ok Boomer
It was already ruined bud
Dude you were born after the 80s
You're not wrong, but you're not right.
Not exactly. There is nothing inherently wrong with tech or social media. The problem is human nature. Good luck fixing that.
Wow who wish that they could go back to the 80’s? Cardboard for break dancing, no cell phones, around family and friends. It simply felt good
Lamar 80s wer terrific
Anything before mass cell phones felt good. It was a different world.
I would wish too. But in my own country's style. The Philippines that is; they're really big fan the 80s if you asked me.
No, it just nostalgia. And I'm from 72
@Lamar Woodall B board was the 70s. 🙂
I was 16 in 85, perfect time to be 16 is in the prime of the 80s. Did so much that year and got into so much drama! Lived in a neighborhood full of friend's. The creek was the number 1 hangout spot over the summer. Wish I was stuck in a endless loop of that summer!!!!
IN 1900: IN 1950 WE WILL HAVE FLYING CAR
IN 1950: WE WILL HAVE FLYING CAR IN 2000
IN 2000: WE WILL HAVE FLYING CAR IN 2050
THIS WILL CONTINUE...
Eh, I doubt it. Flying cars are already evolving fast. I bet we'll have flying cars, at least to some degree, in 2050.
there are flying cars... now.
I don't know why it persist, most humans can barely manage to operate the grounded automobiles we have today even with helpful technology, do we really want to add in take off, landing, and aerial positioning into the mix? The only way it could ever work is a fully automated pilot.
The energy needed for flying cars is too much, when most people just need milk.
Also, drunk drivers, in flying cars. No.
Also, we already have 3D driving.
@@NashEsq I am so tired of people with the same, drab, flying car meme. People screech about it, all the time, right down to the very same comment " duur year 20XX: an Y no flying car?! Haha! Me so funny!"
At least sensible people like you exist.
1980's theme songs were our daily household soundtrack. Loony toons songs on Saturday morning were pure joy and the MASH song (suicide is painless) meant bedtime..
Saturday morning cartoons were the best! (To this day, my husband and I still watch Looney Tunes.) When my dad was watching MASH, no one in the house was allowed to talk. LOL
Love this comment
Till this day I automatically get Sleepy hearing the MASH theme song! Lol
I think Sat. Morning cartoons are thing of the past 2001 last year I remember seeing them on nbc abc cbs (watched with my kids) 😉
Timeline concept is a great idea
I concur 👍
Yes!! Keep it going, Weird History!!
The best decade ever. I feel sorry for anyone who wasn't around in the 80s. It was like living on another planet & I'd go back if I could
Nothing like after school and Saturday morning cartoons! And going to the arcade was the best!!!
pinball machines, then came Space Invaders video game
Hard to believe 40 years ago already, I remember when it was NYE 1979 and then turning into 1980, I thought wow were in the 80's, how time goes by far too fast. Enjoy the good things in your life while you can.
I remember 2019.
Before facemasks, lockdowns, restrictions.
Life was good.
Today we have comfortable technology but its its gotten out of hand . I rather live then and too bad theres not a machine that you could dream a decade of your life in 30 minutes.
I was one in 1980...great video. Such a good decade. Loved being a kid in the 80s...
I just wanna say... i envy everyone who was fortunate enough to live through the 80s and had a blast. I wish i was lucky enough to have lived through that decade as well… but unfortunately i was just born in 84. And yet is is still the decade i feel belonging to the most. The present sucks… the future looks bleak… let me go back please......
I was a teenager for most of the 1980s. I consider myself blessed.
Cartoons only being aired on Saturday morning. Star Wars, Rambo, and dad bringing home a Nintendo .... gasp!
Cartoons being on every broadcast channel until lunchtime every Saturday morning instead of news on every channel probably made the country a better place. As someone born in ‘77, I can say with certainty that it made a better childhood.
☺ born may 3 1990 early 90s kid im now 30 years old
Nintendo in 1980? Surely you mean 1989, '88, or at least the late 1980's?
now they only run politics shows on sat. mornings
AlexKx 1985
I was born in 1979, just a year before the 80s and I'm a proud child of the 80s.
...oh yes, best time to be a kid!!!...
@Jason Jones I wish I was 80s live in 80s but I was born in 2011
@@marshamiller1814 No better time than now, Be grateful you are young. Enjoy
My thumbs-up made the count 80...so perfect.
I am just saying hello! And I was born in 1979
The 80's just called. They want their z28 Camaro with t tops back. I'm gonna drive it to em and stay there.
To many of us then those were not a car to have, they were THE CAR to have. Leaky t tops and all.
John,
Can you take me with you???
Please stop and pick me up....
Really enjoyed the early 1980's. I have to say that they were some of the best years of my life!
Same, I loved the arcade hangouts , pizza, simple stuff
To think that this video gets almost 1 million views in less than 5 days proves that the 80s was the best decade to ever live!!
Well, it wasn't. Any decade that begins with the election of Reagan/Bush and the death of John Lennon is totally fucked!
As an 80s child I am thankful we ddidn't have social media or cameras in our pockets.
Amen !
Yet there was drugs to be addicted to🙈😍
Drugs are timeless
So true we better off
@@nyema2807 As if we don't have drugs to be addicted to now. Anywhere there's been humans theres been drugs, hell ancient egyptians were smoking opium and drinking toxic flower water to get high.
A series geared toward the older (and mostly ignored) audience on the internet. I'm in!
Me too!
As a 23 year old these videos are so interesting! This series is for everyone who loves education and history
Meh, I came here to roll my eyes at it. I was born in '72 and I'm so sick of hearing people claim one of the worst decades in history was so danged great!
I love this new segment!!!! Please keep it up. I’d love to see other decades afterwards. Before and after the 80’s. Thought the 80’s was a great decade to start this off. So much pop culture history!
Love the direction of this channel. Timeline is a wonderful idea and can’t wait to watch. Seriously.
Love this channel.
Some of the best series on Netflix are the ones that cover the highlights of previous decades. This material is absolute gold, keep it coming!
The top ten songs of the year, according to Billboard's Year-End Singles chart, were:
10. The Rose- Bette Midler
9. It's Still Rock and Roll to Me- Billy Joel
8. Funkytown- Lipps Inc
7. Coming Up- Paul McCartney
6. Crazy Little Thing Called Love- Queen
5. Do That to Me One More Time- Captain & Tennille
4. Rock with You- Michael Jackson
3. Magic- Olivia Newton-John
2. Another Brick in the Wall, Part II- Pink Floyd
1. Call Me- Blondie
I remember Magic and Another Brick n The Wall.
The Rose 🌹 the movie my gf and I saw at drive in. Call me was from American Gigelo which we saw at the drive in. I hear cause of the virus the drive in is coming back that is ok with me. We used to go every Friday
All good songs!
Rock with you was 1979 I’m pretty sure
@@dontellgucci1117 Drive-ins, aka Fingerbowl, aka Bouncing Buggies.
This series may be the best on UA-cam! I love it!
You guys should do this series for every decade
1980, I was 17 years old, my family had just lost everyting the prior year because of the communist revolution in our country and had moved to the U.S.A. in December 1979. By September 1980 my father decided to relocate to San Francisco where several cousins will help us to get back on our feet (and we sure did!). The '80s was our come back decade! And by the way, I remember reading about John Lennon's death getting out from the Muni subway in downtown San Francisco.
You are currently 57? :O
57?! Damn, that's like a 100
Good story, ty.
I would like to go back to the 80's please. Those were the days when people were still decent to each other and the music was actually music.
J W, RadRich just made your point. The 80s were a more decent and respectful time...
The 80s were really hard for us people of color but we found a way to overcome
@@calixtolpz1245 ya. I never said it was easy for any of us, but we were better to each other. Much less division, more United as a country.
@RadRich lol honestly it sounds like we are all saying the same thing. You can say things were great in a certain era but things were still hard
@RadRich Na, life is tough on everyone.. just people weren't crying lil biatches then...
Loved being born in 1976 and growing up in the 80's No cell phones, no internet, barely any video games....at least those that didnt pull us away from our lives for hours at end. I was to busy being outside and exploring my town. I guess this is the generation gap. I long for the simpler times.
Same. Best times
You live the life you want to live. Put down the phone and go outside. It's not illegal 😁
@@dirtystockcardriverIt was a different time.
Say what you want about the 80's but people were overall a lot happier than they are today.
In the future there is gonna be at Timeline: 2020 and its gonna be a long video.
Seriously!
Not enough pop culture for a good video.
@@MorenoJ1973 the world has always had problems. Its just that now some of those problems are directly affecting you so you're paying more attention. Aren't we all at that. 2020 will be remembered most definitely for the historical and social events that have taken shape this year, whether you believe they're for better or worst.
@@askiavance3281 yeah, 50 to 80 million people died from the spanish flu and most people barely even know about it.
corona has only killed 500 thousand and people are acting like its caesar crossing the rubicon.
And it's gonna be soooooo messed up...... hahaha
The 80's was such a cool year to be in. The styles the hair the MUSIC!!
2/19/1980 I was fifteen and the death of AC/DC singer Bon Scott absolutely crushed me as a musician. I’m 55 now and I still miss that guy. 1980 was a bad year for music. John Lennon was killed and John Bonham died.
i dont understand how people can miss someone they didnt even know, hmm
No, they didn't mention what I heard about, in Jan. 1980 actor James Garner was beaten up by a man, and Garner
pressed charges against him, and alot of fans were on
his side.
@@joeschmoe8320 a robot will never have genuine emotions. a robot will never have consciousness. a robot will never be anything more then a set of algorithms, even those algorithms may be so complex we dont understand how they work, it will still always and forever be a dumb machine
John, John, and Bon.....hmmm
I think this was the year Mount St Helens erupted ' and the hostage crisis in Iran ' and there was a siege at the Iranian embassey in London.
IMAGINE: JOHN LENNON has been gone as long as he had lived (1980-2020)
:(
I still remember hearing of his death while watching a football game . He was the charismatic Beatle.
I'd never been this early for a video. I love this narrator. You're so funny, sir. You are one funny guy. Thank you for your work!
I believe the voice is of actor Tom Blank, and I agree he's doing a really good job 🙂
For a while I thought it sounded a like Matthew McConaughey.
When this year is so shitty you gotta look at other ones
Huh?
This entire century has been nothing but disappointment after disappointment. From the way people treat each other to the ugliest cars ever to roll out of a factory. I have hated everything from 2000 forward.
Wait, huh?
It’s been all downhill since 536 AD
@@indridcold8433 ugh, everything has been such a disappointment since the Roman empire fell . Such simple times for the glory of Rome 😩😩
I turned 20 in 1980.
1980 is the start of the Golden Decade (the 80s) of my life ... full of great memories.
I wish I could go back to this year.
The best movies came out in the 80s Indiana Jones, empire strikes back, return of the Jedi, aliens, terminator
James Goh don’t forget Robocop too!
Back to the future, Beverly Hills cop, Rocky 3 and 4.
And who framed Roger rabbit lol
Predator
Jaws and ET
1980:
Lennon was shot dead
Reagan wins US Presidential Elections
La Lakers' wins 7th NBA Championship
He won election. Not two of them.
Remember when we had a respected republican president? Now the GOP is awful
@Kirk Moore there were not two presidential elections in 1980 hence Regan only won the one election. He would later win the 1984 election thus making it plural when talking about both elections but not when talking about only one election. Goofy
@@jamesanderson6373 but the video focuses in the year 1980
You forgot about *Pauly D was born*
Wow!! This brought back so many memories for me. I was only 12 years old when these things happened. They are still some of my best years ever! Thank you so much for a great video 👍
How time smears everything into a blurry memory. Thank you for bringing it all back into focus...
I’ve been on this earth for 40 years, and can say that nostalgia bites pretty hard sometimes. Let’s not go gently into that good night...
The best decade. The right amount of technology, people were cool, and the entertainment was gold. 70s get a close second then 90s. Everything else was weird.
@Mirror Man I recommend the 1950s for your consideration. Life is about the interplay of order and change. The 1960s had too much change . . . which detracts from the appreciation of it. The 1950s had a more subtle (and therefore more interesting) interplay. Consider sexuality, for example. Lots of it in the 1960s. Was it a sexually more interesting decade (?) No . . . because the novelty of it was more intense in the 1950s.
Like everyone I would give anything to go back to the 70s and 80s!!
In terms of recent decades, I think 90's seemed kinda boring when compared to other decades like the 60's, 70's, 80's, or even the 2000's.
I agree with the 90's. The 60's was too weird and 50's too conservative.
And the best U.S. President in a hundred years, Ronald Reagan, who - with the help of Margaret Thatcher - won the Cold War, giving hundreds of millions of people freedom and the opportunity for democracy.
Ahh... Florida.
Some things never change.
Yessir 🤘
The 80s were the BEST decade ever with some of the most memorable/shocking/ events ever!
Miami Vice, Michael Jackson, sports cars, McDLT, Star Wars, Ghost Busters, Back To The Future, Jason, Michael, Freddy, Rambo, Reagan, The Challenger disaster, The Berlin Wall, Mt. St. Helens, Atari, Pac-Man, Nintendo, Aqua Net, Dallas, Dynasty, The Dukes, Night Rider, SNL, etc. etc. etc.....
Are we talking about the Eighties in general or 1980?
Shout out to all my Gen Xers! We were teenagers in the 80s and ruled the world
👍👍👍👍👍
You generation moved manufacturing overseas! You sold us out to CHYnah!!
Christopher Shiverz nope, that would still be those older ones that did that. Gen X is just now getting to take over the wheel.
You early Gen Xers were mainly teens in the '80s. The only teen age I (as a late Gen Xer) experienced in the '80s was the age of 13 back in '89 and even then I remained that age well into nearly the first half of 1990. Most of my teen years were in the '90s.
I was 8 in 1980. My big brother that I idolized joined the Airforce. He taught me all about Kadafi and firearms, including target practice with 22 rifles on his leaves. I loved wearing my screen print Daisy Duke t- shirt and my fancy Nike tennis shoes. I spent every Sunday in the den watching Dale Earnhardt and Bill Elliott ruling Nascar. Wow.
I was never into sports as a kid but I remember everyone was glued to the television when the US was playing the USSR in hockey that year at the Olympics. It was about more than hockey and as a kid, even I watched with anticipation.
That actually sounds dope af but id rather not live in constant fear of nuclear annihilation
How are you doing over there
I absolutely love this and I can't wait to relive more of the 80's in upcoming videos! Great programming choice @WeirdHistory!
It was a great decade
I turned 10 in the summer of 1980. The entire year was non stop amazing. Even as a kid you could feel the shift from the 70's to 80's. Every year after was just as good as the last. Oh yes! Empire Strikes Back!
Wow ' I never realized the cultural shift ' I think it happened slow over several years beginning around mid/late 70s into the early 80s ' this year was hardly any different to the latter 70s ' was a bigger difference by the middle decade ' looking at politics ' fashions and music in terms of.
I'll be 50 years old in 4 months.. Wow do I miss the 80's...
The '80s were AWESOME!!!
I don't
Happy early birthday!!! Psssst....turning 50 was great for me and I hope it’s the same for you!!
just imagine how the 60s would of been like ?
.......all the oldies talk about the 60s
@@dozzer009 i love you my friemd............................
Back when you still called it a "home computer" I remember wondering why in the hell would you want a computer in your house. Now we wear them on our wrists.
Right? I thought it was a fad
@Joseph Babica caps lock. Use it.
@@RiptideUrBadLol Joe used it!......As only JOE COULD!
Why would you pay so much $ for a thing/electric that could....be a SHOPPING LIST! ...Telephone directory!.....and...more!! ?
We thought we'd have flying car's by now. Pretty bummed. We have triggered blue hair droolers calling everything a nazi.
..in our pockets, cars, homes....there is a Microprocessor EVERYWHERE.
Keep up the timeline stuff.. it's a cool type of way to learn about history
It's been said here already - but I feel fortunate to have grown up in that decade - especially for the music!
The moment John Lennon was killed was one of those times in history when you remember exactly where you were when you heard the news.
Yes I was driving home from work.Everytime I stop at that set of lights I remember this is the spot.
"Just give me some truth" - John Lennon
@@georgiasmith64 I was working in the interior of my 72 chevy van when I heard the news.
Remember my father waking me up that Monday night and telling me JOHN LENNON was shot?! It was the first time I ever heard about hollow-point bullets.
Not for me, I was 5 years old back then.
My favourite memory of the '80s was still being young....
I decided to never grow up.
Absolutely love this series!! I hope you do the whole decade an then the 90s too!!! Love love love this channel!!!