Because, quite sadly...

I was born that year.

Sad, huh?



I was indeed born a decade too late. thanks, God! *shakes fist*





But really, how old were you guys in 1988? Make me feel a little better here.
Or worse, lol.

I'm curious!

*Ash*


  18/19 years old...

  This should help you feel better because you're much younger than me...

18 on 7/25

I was 20 yrs. old in '88.

11 years old...

I was 16 turning 17 the summer of 88

Ashtonishing 22, heading for several trips to Germany by BMW, Going steady, marrying, having children...  Listening to Van Halen 1984 and others.

I was 10!
The year my parents opened a Roller Rink and I was instantly saturated
with EVERYTHING teen. Especially the MUSIC! blaring for 6 hours straight a night!
(and my husband wonders why I love 80's music. Sheesh) ;)

I was 10!
The year my parents opened a Roller Rink and I was instantly saturated
with EVERYTHING teen. Especially the MUSIC! blaring for 6 hours straight a night!
(and my husband wonders why I love 80's music. Sheesh) ;)


I can relate to that. I took roller skating lessons for about 3 years and I'd stay there for countless hours listening to 80's music - over and over - plus the 70's stuff mixed in with it, too. I loved it just as much for the loud music as I did for the skating.

I was 16 turning 17 the summer of 88

You are sixteen going on seventeen, baby it's time to think
Better beware, be canny and careful, baby you're on the brink
You are sixteen going on seventeen, fellows will fall in line
Eager young lads, and roues and cads
Will offer you food and wine
Totally unprepared are you, to face a world of men
Timid and shy and scared are you, of things beyond your ken
You need someone older and wiser, telling you what to do
I am seventeen going on eighteen, I'll take care of you
--Sound of Music

I turned 14 that year.

I was 20.

Twenty One and enjoying life

I was 28 but still felt 20... had a 3 yr old daughter that I adored....and a bad marriage. Later divorced she would listen to music and MTV videos with me ( the ones that weren't inappropriate for her) along with growng up withthe Smurffs, Ninja Turtles,etc......She is now 20 and she remembers all the music and the bands and loves it. But she loves all kinds of music. The 80's were definitely unique as were the 70's. If time does in fact repeat itself some lucky future generation is in for a real treat.

Twenty One and enjoying life



great picture! what a handsome fellow you are! ;) :)

I can relate to that. I took roller skating lessons for about 3 years and I'd stay there for countless hours listening to 80's music - over and over - plus the 70's stuff mixed in with it, too. I loved it just as much for the loud music as I did for the skating.


Every once in a while wed have dances(sock hops) on the skate floor (we had a BIG turnout those nights.) I still have over 100 45's with 80'S music on them. When Cd's came out my parrents gave them all to ME! . You could leave the building and cross the street to the convenience store /gas station and STILL hear the music pounding away. The teenangers started hanging out at the gas station to listen:) They filled the tiny parking lot up but we never once had any complaints!

Every once in a while wed have dances(sock hops) on the skate floor (we had a BIG turnout those nights.) I still have over 100 45's with 80'S music on them. When Cd's came out my parrents gave them all to ME! . You could leave the building and cross the street to the convenience store /gas station and STILL hear the music pounding away. The teenangers started hanging out at the gas station to listen:) They filled the tiny parking lot up but we never once had any complaints!


Yes, we had those sorts of things at the rink, too. We had Spring Programs where lots of skaters in the same region as ours would skate at our rink (it was like a competition without the medals, lol). I don't know if you had heard of GoldSkate, but that was like the Roller Skating version of the Olympics. We would go there down to Bakersfield, CA, and skate at this HUGE roller skating rink. I think they were regulary held in February.

I was 16 in 1988.. stealing my moms car to go thrift shopping and garbage picking.. Im a rare kinda BIRD!  LOL ;)

I was 16 in 1988.. stealing my moms car to go thrift shopping and garbage picking.. Im a rare kinda BIRD!   LOL ;)




sounds like my kinda fun!  :D ;D

^ Me three. :) 8)

In fact, I rarely go to the mall or places like that anymore - Goodwill is like a goldmine to me, esp since I'm into many "older" things anyway.

BTW, on that note, in the past few years that I've regularly shopped there (1998-now), even though the age of items is totally varied, a good lot of it is from the 90's. Or about 10-15 years prior.

I bet Goodwill stores circa 1988 had tons of 70's stuff with some early 80's things, like ghettoblasters and legwarmers just starting to drift in.

^ Me three. :) 8)

In fact, I rarely go to the mall or places like that anymore - Goodwill is like a goldmine to me, esp since I'm into many "older" things anyway.

BTW, on that note, in the past few years that I've regularly shopped there (1998-now), even though the age of items is totally varied, a good lot of it is from the 90's. Or about 10-15 years prior.

I bet Goodwill stores circa 1988 had tons of 70's stuff with some early 80's things, like ghettoblasters and legwarmers just starting to drift in.



Goodwill RAWKS!! ;)

It sure does, Quirk!

Goodwill is awesome.  For a vinyl and cassette lover like me, it's a gold mine  8)

^ Same here. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure I'll always advance with technology (a couple years slower maybe, LOL, but I always will), but there's a part of me that will never be able to let go of audiotapes. Grew up with 'em and am still attached.

And since records have been around for ages, and Goodwill still has plenty, I think (hope) they'll do the same with cassettes. I mean, if you walked into a Goodwill in 2020, I'd like to think they were still available.

^ Same here. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure I'll always advance with technology (a couple years slower maybe, LOL, but I always will), but there's a part of me that will never be able to let go of audiotapes. Grew up with 'em and am still attached.

And since records have been around for ages, and Goodwill still has plenty, I think (hope) they'll do the same with cassettes. I mean, if you walked into a Goodwill in 2020, I'd like to think they were still available.


There's too many goods left on my tapes to let go!!!

^ Same here. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure I'll always advance with technology (a couple years slower maybe, LOL, but I always will), but there's a part of me that will never be able to let go of audiotapes. Grew up with 'em and am still attached.

And since records have been around for ages, and Goodwill still has plenty, I think (hope) they'll do the same with cassettes. I mean, if you walked into a Goodwill in 2020, I'd like to think they were still available.



I always find so many goodies there..for myself..and to re-sell on Ebay.

I always find so many goodies there..for myself..and to re-sell on Ebay.


Yeah, I've done the same thing at flea markets in this area too. If they're electronics, for instance, I'll clean 'em up a bit, maybe test/use it for awhile, then try and sell it for more.

^ Same here. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure I'll always advance with technology (a couple years slower maybe, LOL, but I always will), but there's a part of me that will never be able to let go of audiotapes. Grew up with 'em and am still attached.

And since records have been around for ages, and Goodwill still has plenty, I think (hope) they'll do the same with cassettes. I mean, if you walked into a Goodwill in 2020, I'd like to think they were still available.


I'll never let go of tapes either.  I probably have well over 5,000 cassette tapes, all 80's  :)

^ If you don't count duplicates and recorded ones (i.e. just "album" ones) I have around 800, and I thought I was obsessed. You've got me beat to a pulp there, LOL.

I'd guess it's probably

1980's - 50%
1990's - 30%
1960's - 5%
1970's - 15%

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I was 13  :)

^ Me three. :) 8)

In fact, I rarely go to the mall or places like that anymore - Goodwill is like a goldmine to me, esp since I'm into many "older" things anyway.

BTW, on that note, in the past few years that I've regularly shopped there (1998-now), even though the age of items is totally varied, a good lot of it is from the 90's. Or about 10-15 years prior.

I bet Goodwill stores circa 1988 had tons of 70's stuff with some early 80's things, like ghettoblasters and legwarmers just starting to drift in.


I also go to trift stores since I like to collect cassttes, cassette singles, 45s, and albums from the '80's/early '90's  :D

Also video tapes, since there's now rare... especially out of print stuff...  8)

Also public domain cartoon videos, which I used to enjoy...which I still like to this day  :D

13 years old for most of 88 until November, my birthday.  I consider myself pretty lucky growing up when I did.  It gave me enough time to grow cynical enough before the Backstreet Boys and Britney ruined everything that is holy.  I'm a professional DJ.  I just did a New Years party and a twelve year old kid asked me to play "Jump" by Van Halen, "Jesse's Girl" and anything by Styx.  The eighties are alive in the kids today!  At 31, I listen to more eighties now than I did then.

13 years old for most of 88 until November, my birthday.  I consider myself pretty lucky growing up when I did.  It gave me enough time to grow cynical enough before the Backstreet Boys and Britney ruined everything that is holy.  I'm a professional DJ.  I just did a New Years party and a twelve year old kid asked me to play "Jump" by Van Halen, "Jesse's Girl" and anything by Styx.  The eighties are alive in the kids today!  At 31, I listen to more eighties now than I did then.


That's kinda impressive a 12 year old asked for those songs. How sweet *sigh of relief that kids today DO have some taste*  :)

I was 8 in that year until November then I turned 9

I was sadly 19 and had just got married, now not to him.  OMG do I feel old.

T

WOW alot of younglings that are into the 80's...I think I was pretty much in the middle of the 80s having graduated in 1985...so that would put me 21. 
Thing that sucks about this thread is that I REALLY wish I could turn back time. :\'(  I would then make all the right choices to make my life alot easier today, but unfortuantely we can't go back in time...so  :) every step I take from now will determines the "Best I Can"-Queensr

I was 11 years old going through puberty, jamming on Guy, Bobby Brown, and The Boys, DIAL MY HEEEAAAAARRRTTTTT!!!!!!

ok time to blow my cover!  in 1988 i was  32!  just bought my first house and a brand new ford ranger!  which i still have with 317,000 miles!

27 and expecting my first child.

Never understood you people.  I was 7 to 9 1/2 years old (and still remaining in the "single digits") from 1982 to 1985, and I remember quite a bit of the pop culture of those years.  I even have a hazy memory of 1981 pop culture.  So I never got why people that were in single digits through the rest of the 80s could never remember anything beyond He-Man or the Ninja Turtles.     


I know right.  I remember a whooole lot from my single years from 1980 to 1986.  I remember when I was 3, I went to Wildwood.  When I was 4, I went to Cleveland, Ohio. Everywhere my mom went, I went.  This was before I was in a foster home and before I lived with my father afterwards.  I remember when I started kindergarten when I was 5.  I remember I was 6, Michael Jackson was at its peak, and I remember listening to the WHOLE album over my grandmother's house.  They used to wear that album OUT!!!!!  I remember when when my brother and I used to play Atari together at 6.  I remember watching Poltergeist on HBO a year after its release, and I wanted to be like Caroline because she was the youngest, and she was around my age group, and I would put my hands on the TV screen.  I remember when ET first came out, and it was a big deal at the time.  I didn't go to the movies to see it, but I remember the ET commercials and the ET games and dolls.  I remember when I was 7 in 1984, I remember Madonna, Bruce Springsteen, New Edition, Ghostbusters, Snorks, Duran Duran, Phil Collins, Run DMC, Whodini, Beat Street, Dancin On Air, Stevie Wonder, etc.

WOW alot of younglings that are into the 80's...I think I was pretty much in the middle of the 80s having graduated in 1985...so that would put me 21. 
Thing that sucks about this thread is that I REALLY wish I could turn back time. :\'(  I would then make all the right choices to make my life alot easier today, but unfortuantely we can't go back in time...so  :) every step I take from now will determines the "Best I Can"-Queensr


I couldn't have said it better myself, I was 20 in 88.

I shouldn't say this but I was 25 that year.  :-[


It was also one of the worst years of my life.




Cat


Sorry it was such a bad year, Cat!

Hmmm, now I feel REALLY old.  I was 28 then.  ::)

A year in which I "went through a whole lot of changes".  Some good, some bad.

I was 10 years old in 1988. Fourth grade was fun; fifth grade, not so much.

At least you guys were alive in the 80's  >:(

I kick myself for being born in 1990 and not even being a child during the 80's

Still, being a little kid in the 90's wasn't half bad  ::)

I was 16.  Thanks, I suddenly feel very old. ::)

I was born on November 1, 1988

I was 1 year old in 1988. ;)

6 and don't remember much.

I turned 17 and entered my senior year of high school!  8)

I was -2 years old.   ::)

Apparently I'm the only one (at least in the part of the thread that I read) not born on new years day. I was 5 or 6 depending on what part of 1988. On this date of that year I was 5.

17, but turned 18 in September... class of '88 baby!

At 31, I listen to more eighties now than I did then.


Same here. I listened to a lot more rock and metal then, but now it's mostly new wave and pop from that era, and mostly 1980-1984.

I was going to say 22 and then I realized I was 32.

my daughter was in her mommy's womb  ::)

I was 2 and hot dog, I feel cheated! I wish my mom had had me sooner!  :(

I was 12 in '88, in the thick of the my worst days of middle school. Otherwise, life was grand.   

So many younguns here!  :o

I'll have to blow my ever youthful cover to answer, but, alas, I was 28 then. 

(BTW when you're born early in a year that ends with '0' like me, it's easy to calculate how old you were when).  ::)

Old me was fine in 1988.

Old me was fine in 1988.


No doubt about it!  :)

30

I turned 17 and entered my senior year of high school!  8)


Same here.  ;)

I was 9 years old for most of it and still in the Juniors School.

18.  :)

I was still pieces of cells in my mom and dads bodies.

I was still in my dad's body as a sperm cell.  :P

I was 14 years old.

I was 2/3, 1988 is the first year I have any conscious memories of, I wish I could remember more of the '80s :\'(.

Old me was fine in 1988!

Old me was fine in 1988!


So you don't want to say how old you were?

So you don't want to say how old you were?


Well, we could see his age on his profile. Given that he's in late 50s, he was 30/31 in 1988.

Well, we could see his age on his profile. Given that he's in late 50s, he was 30/31 in 1988.

He was around the same age as Danny Joey and Jesse from Full House.

He was around the same age as Danny Joey and Jesse from Full House.

However, the characters of Danny and Joey were around the same age, while Jesse was a few years younger than them.

I was 2/3, 1988 is the first year I have any conscious memories of, I wish I could remember more of the '80s :\'(.


Same with me (more of the "3" than "2" for me). Especially since IMO we're now even past the peak of '80s nostalgia, now that classic hits (FKA "Oldies") stations are now adding more '90s than '80s titles into their rotation, even including Cher's Believe with autotune. Of course, if another Clinton will be elected, that will be the death knell for the '80s as being the cool decade to be nostalgic about, which make sense since '80s nostalgia was at its best development during the Bush 43 era, the son of the Vice President during the '80s and the President during the '90s transition that still had waning influence. At least I'll still be checking VHS and Beta tapes for the closest experience for the real thing, and unlike the earlier '80s, its still fairly easy to find TV recordings and home recorded videos off a camcorder from 1988 if you know where to look. I do remember watching The Price Is Right and seeing some summer reruns in 1988 where Bob Barker had dark hair from the early fall 1987 episodes that they aired, along with some episodes with a different dollar sign pattern on the Big Wheel, and in a diary has mentions of me watching Cheers and Mr. Belvedere.

I had turned 8 in 1988. That was the year my family and I came to Rhode Island(before that we lived in New Jersey).

I was 12 and loving every minute of it!


Before September 7, 1988 I was 11.  After September 7, 1988 I was 12.

I was conceived around February/March of 1988. And born in November.

-11

Old me was fine in 1988!

I was 14 years old.

Old me was fine in 1988!


Why bump an old thread to make a joke that you've made several times in the same thread?  I don't get it

I was conceived somewhere around late February, or early March. Then I was born around October/November.  :-X

1988 is almost 30 years ago!

1988 is almost 30 years ago!


Me, and the original poster, will be 30 soon!  :)

Me, and the original poster, will be 30 soon!  :)


When will you have your grandchildren?

Just kidding.  :-X Didn't you just turn 28? ;D

I was -11 years old in 1988.  ::) :D ;)

When will you have your grandchildren?

Just kidding.  :-X Didn't you just turn 28? ;D


I don't want children or grandchildren.  :P

When will you have your grandchildren?

Just kidding.  :-X Didn't you just turn 28? ;D


I'm really 130 years old.  :D

1988 is almost 30 years ago!


1988 is as old in 2017 as 1959 was in 1988. :o

I was 9

1988 is as old in 2017 as 1959 was in 1988. :o

and as old 1930 was in 1959 and as old as 1901 was in 1930

I was five.

I turned 32 that year and got married to my second wife

I was negative eleven years old.

I was negative eleven years old.

Same here ;D.

I was negative eleven years old.


Same here ;D.


Man, you guys are so young. I was rocking out to Bon Jovi in my crib in 1988. 8)

Man, you guys are so young. I was rocking out to Bon Jovi in my crib in 1988. 8)

I was rocking out to the millennium in my crib in 1999 8). Beat that!

19.  Freshman/sophomore year of college.

I was 14 years old in 1988.

Man, you guys are so young. I was rocking out to Bon Jovi in my crib in 1988. 8)


Were you also jamming to Bon Jovi when you were learning how to walk?  ;)

I was rocking out to the millennium in my crib in 1999 8). Beat that!


That sounds a lot better than saying that we were rocking out to Creed in our cribs. :P

Were you also jamming to Bon Jovi when you were learning how to walk?  ;)


Naw, I took my first steps to "Sweet Child O' Mine" by Guns N' Roses. 8)

That sounds a lot better than saying that we were rocking out to Creed in our cribs. :P

Oh god....that sounds horrible ;).

Naw, I took my first steps to "Sweet Child O' Mine" by Guns N' Roses. 8)


good song by the way.

I turned 17 that year...ye gods...

27

I was 14 years old.

6

I had turned 8 that year.

I would have loved to have remembered 1988. 1984 to 1988 sound so fun!  8)

I would have loved to have remembered 1988. 1984 to 1988 sound so fun!  8)


What, I was so sure you did! I was thinking you're about my age, guess I was wrong, lol.

What, I was so sure you did! I was thinking you're about my age, guess I was wrong, lol.


I was born in '88!  :D

on a  bayou right?

I was born in '88!  :D


I started High School in 1988.

1988 was the year my family and I moved to Rhode Island. I had turned 8, and had to attend a different school of course. It was hard and I didn't like school, but I made up for it when I would go home from school and VH1 was on! Made me a happy girl! :)

6

I was 7