“The Ultimate ’80s Page”: 50 Posts About The 80s That Today’s Kids Probably Won’t Get

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Robin was such an amazing person. I want to cry anytime I see him or watch his movies, I miss him so much.

I agree... lol

Guilty as charged!

When you get a perfect picture but your finger sticks out in the corner…

In summer, you had to run the hose a bit first otherwise it was hot water that tasted like rubber

Hey you guys!

I got to spin the wheel once (relative works for CBS & he was giving us a backstage tour). It's *really* heavy.

I have this and I’m a teenager

and it is resistant, since the 70s, we are in the 4th generation to play with, still works "Ding!" !

My car still has these

I used to be a smoker, still hated people smoking where I was eating back then.

The MARVELLOUS! THE MAGICAL!!! MAD MAD MAD MAD MADAM MIM!!! XD

And I don't want them back

I recently went to a high school reunion. Those of us who are still alive are turning 75 this year. :)

Those were also table footballs

We called the theatre phone number and listened to the recorded listings on repeat

Much of my middle school yearbooks looked like this.

My dads car had a hatch in the backseat that gave access to the boot, my dumbass would happily travel about in the boot with my head through the hatch.

I'll can tell you, as the teacher writing on and teaching from an overhead projector, that thing gave off massive amounts of heat! I pitied the kid sitting behind it.

World 8 -1 if I remember correctly.

bc tupperware was the first MLM and the pitcher was one of the starter welcome presents to new members.

I remember when those were called "hard disks" and floppy disks were larger and literally floppy.

It's good to be the King. (also shout out to my first ever crush, the Brazilian Bombshell herself, Cleo Rocos)

Maybe, but Ford has had a spontaneous combustion issue WAY before Tesla. Think it started with the Windstar

Kids still do this...

“I have little feet because nothing grows in the shade.” - Dolly Parton Don’t you just love her. And here’s a cheesy joke. Q. How can you spot Dolly's children in a crowd? A. They're the ones with stretch marks round their mouths.

All of them had to be checked for any coins left in the coin return slot, you never know!

Yeah we had some, bloody horrific seeing them again. Somethings you don't need reminding of

Is this American? I think the UK equivalent is chip paper and those foam ceiling tiles!

Heeeeeeey !

Tales from the crypt!

"UUUUUUPPPPP next it's COUPLE'S skate!!! Grab your sweetheart and head to the floor!!!!" ::: Every middle schooler::::: immediately skates to the exit

OMFG! I got this toy and I loved it I was convinced that I was going to be a fashion designer. I'm not.

Brilliant movie and songs, Sir Didymus and his noble steed are still my favourite characters.

By the time I was a kid we were playing Cruisin' USA. We earned those book-it pizzas.

Lol it's true. There was a point where everything had to be see-through so we can see the workings inside. Phones, toys, etc.

those things will always be cool

No no no, the hamburger phone like in Juno ")

Nope. Football phone. All day. What I got was grounded when my mom caught me after I'd unplugged the phone cause I found a phone hookup in my room and thought I was a badass because I was IN MY ROOM and on the phone. 😅

I had one! My parents gave me my own phone when I turned 16 because they were tired of me using the kitchen phone. I was the reason they got call waiting, too! And then a couple years later, dial up internet happened…

These are very comfortable to talk on actually

Nah, I wanted a Garfield one. My cousin had one of these. Her boyfriend broke it in a fight one day after she didn't immediately respond to his page. Yes, really. 😅

My bff had one and I was so jealous of her

I still want one.

I’m a teenager and that looks cool.

I *still* want one! :D

What with all the electronic 21st Century gadgets, the whole world is still dumb as a box of rocks

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Anybody else remember pink Princess phones? (Me!)

I actually earned one selling greeting cards as a school fundraiser.

there once was a specialty phone store in south coast village. She had a baby blue "Starlite" phone (princess rotary) with a lighted dial on a dimmer switch that glowed azure blue. I was so in love with it I rode my bike there every day to visit it. I would just stare at it until it got weird. Then I'd buy a 3 foot licorice whip at morrow"s nut house on the way out and pedal my bottom home before the streetlights came on. One day the owner just gave me the phone. My 9 year old spirit soared! it was my most favorite thing in the world. To this day if someone constantly admires something in my home, I gift it to them (except the framed art). Watching that joy a*s they receive and rush home with their treasure is a fun little flaashback.

I was always jealous of my friends who had their own phone. Even more so if they were the real lucky ones who not only got their own phone, by a separate line.

Love this.

I had one but, my father didn't like the sound he heard wail dialing I rotary phone! So, I had to get rid of it 😭

Our phone was on the wall in the kitchen with a ten foot cord that was always messed up and twisted

I have the neon one.

If it was see-through, it was cool.

Prison phone?

And those clear acrylic toilet seats with syringes embedded within them.