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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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4 years ago DotsCreated 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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4 years ago DotsCreated 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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4 years ago DotsCreated 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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4 years ago DotsCreated 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An encyclopedia that was out of date a year later on anything but history.

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4 years ago DotsCreated 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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4 years ago DotsCreated 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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4 years ago DotsCreated 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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4 years ago DotsCreated 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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4 years ago DotsCreated 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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April Simnel
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes, I'd have to sneak to watch Monty Python, Saturday Night Live (Eddie Murphy era), Friday Night Videos, the Video Music Machine (a local show that had videos before my city got cable and MTV), etc., etc., etc. Ah, Fundamentalist Pentecostals. Growing up and being raised by one was so not fun.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Back then you'd go to a friend's house, you know the one, the one with the 'cool mom' who'd let you watch anything and maybe have a small glass of wine too?

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Alex Bailey
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Remember watching Dracula after school round a friend's house and feeling ever so slightly shocked but delighted.

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Elaine Dodge
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

TVs in bedrooms are banned in my house. There's one, we all watch together or we do other stuff, like read, talk to each other, interact, play games, go for walks.

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Kathy Baylis
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Before HBO, any major movies shown on network TV were heavily censored. Sometimes key scenes were so chopped up to take out what the FCC didn’t allow, that you’d just lose the whole plot.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My aunt walked past the living room while American Gigolo, with Richard Gere, was on and said "I hope that's not pornography!" and I ran to change the channel (no remote!). Never did finish watching it

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Debrina Blackmoon
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

even when i had my own tv-finally at 18-my sister would take it over since we still shared a room

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Sandra Mason
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

would have been a better movie with someone besides Kim Basinger..she didn't act all she did was squeal.

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Lace Neil
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Lol, my parents banned us from watching Trainspotting. We just waited til they went on holiday and rented it from the video shop.

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