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As an '80s kid, I'm often nostalgic about that era. I sometimes hear myself speaking and I sound like my grandparents when they bragged about how things were better “before”.

To be honest, I do think things were better before. Ha! The eighties were an amazing time to live in and anyone who disagrees simply wasn’t around yet.

But let’s be honest, some things are just so much easier now, right? I created this comic series called “Strange things from the past” because some things are better now and some things were better then.

I had a blast making it. It was a little travel back in time and I hope you’ll travel too!

If you want to see more of my comics, check out my previous posts here and here

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Strange Things From The Past – 22 Things You Will Understand If You Were Born Before The 90’s

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Amy Frank
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6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

LMAO, my sister and I did that and you can hear my father in background shouting to turn down the music

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    Little Wonder
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ah yessss. sitting on my bedroom floor, reading the lyrics booklet (if they had one) or at least going over and over the album art while the new CD played.

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    pebs
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No surprise IQ is steadily lowering.

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    Betsy R
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I had one of those clear colored phones. I loved it so much. It HADDD to have an extra long cord.

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    RaroaRaroa
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    An encyclopedia that was out of date a year later on anything but history.

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    chi-wei shen
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The best thing in the early 80s was a walkman and you really could walk and run while listening to it. The discman came much later, in the middle of the 80s.

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    lenka
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    With or without a cell phone, I would never wait an hour for someone to turn up.

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    Samantha Lomb
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My grandfather owned the local video store. He would hold it for us.

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    LuckyL
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "photo album today" -> do they even exist?

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    Samantha Lomb
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Do not miss smoking in restaurants or other public areas at all

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    ADHORTATOR
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My father recorded a sports match over the christening of our first child....

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    Demi Zwaan
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We did have videorecorders back then...

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    Human #1,232,867
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We were able to read a map. Main difference!

    Brandi VanSteenwyk
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But expecting a man to "need" to use a map or ask for help/directions was not an option.

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    desert29rat
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I still get lost. I'm talented that way.

    Colleen Coughlin
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    MapQuest was bomb...printing off the three pages of directions always made me feel like I was going on some type of adventure haha

    Bob Beltcher
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Find a gas station and ask for a key map

    Mikey
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Pull out the Thomas Guide!

    Kathy Granzow
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No, you went to the nearest gas station to only be told by the young punk behind the counter "I have no idea, I'm not from around here"

    Steve Barnett
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Don't own a satnav. If I need to know how to get somewhere, I google map and 'drive' with mouse clicks down the roads. That way I get to see beforehand what the route looks like, plus key features that help me identify that I'm on the right route.

    Lara Verne
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We ask someone for directions or use map.

    Caffeine72
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I went to college in LA and the Thomas Brothers Guide was more valuable than the bible to everyone living there.

    ADHORTATOR
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Some things never change: Men have and will never ask for direction...

    Amber Jeanpierre
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    IDK my aunt always had a bunch of maps in the glove compartment, I was the navigator every time she got lost.

    Arika Anjiro
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We read maps and knew coordinates. Nowadays, if I give directions using coordinates such as north, south, etc, people look at me like I’m speaking a foreign language.

    Laura Sherman
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hi! Early 90s baby who knows her cardinal directions, we aren't all helpless :)

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    Randomcthulu
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My brother has NO sense of direction, so he'd drive and I'd navigate

    Erika Leon
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I still collect maps of all the cities and States that I visit.

    Kathy Baylis
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    HE wouldn’t ask for directions if his life depended on it, and they might never get to their destination. SHE, on the other hand, would ask and would make it to their destination—-the same day. You have to remember this time in history to understand the joke.

    El Dee
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I only moved onto Sat Nav in 2009, was convinced I'd never use one as I preferred a map, never looked back! Lol!

    Paul K. Johnson
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Everybody who traveled had a road atlas in their car.

    Susan Reid Smith
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Some places out in the back of beyond we still need paper maps. The GPS is handy to create a path of where we've been, so we can retrace our steps if we need to.

    Kenny Kulbiski
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Lostes I ever got was thanks to a GPS.

    Kjorn
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    i Always kept a map in my car

    Amy Frank
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Thank god for google maps, now I just download map and directions or send it to my phone if I dont have data

    ADHORTATOR
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because men don' t ask for directions :-)

    Amy Frank
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    S true, my bf will ride around for hours (minutes, hours for dramatic effect) without asking for directions. That is why I must always google map before hand.

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    Tina MacKinnon
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Stop at a gas station and ask for directions

    Yvette Desmarais
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You could stop and ask for directions.

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    Little Wonder
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    i made a few mix tapes. None of them worked, I was very single.

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    Verena
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes, you had to sing to the guy in the CD store

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    Brandi VanSteenwyk
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I blame YouTube for the horrendous way eyebrows have devolved into hideously unnatural geometric smears on otherwise beautiful faces.

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    Becca Gizmo the Squirrel
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    She looks cute in her '80's clothes. She just needs black lace Madonna gloves.

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    Alex
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Still waiting for the boyfriend from earlier?

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    Kjorn
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    remember watching porky's in my small black and white tv in the corner of my room carefully listen to the noise in the house in case of my parent coming in

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