How come? I dont think it was that bad to be an 80s kid. There are posts I read that some people say they rather be an 80s kid than a 90s kid.

Thats the rule everyone goes with for 5 to 13, but i think childhood starts at age 3 as thats the first year you are in school and to me, it ends at 10/11 because even though you are still in elementary school and doing kid things, you are entering a new stage.


I doubt almost anyone over 25 or certainly over 30 wants to be older/perceived as older. ;D But in and of itself being an 80s kid is pretty cool. Yeah, some people can have fuzzy memories back to age 3 (even 2 1/2 maybe) and I'd pretty much agree 11 and 12 year olds are like "proto teenagers".

You have actually seen people say  that?


Not directly, but their behavior implies this. If you don't like today's kid culture and you want to distance yourself from it, you probably like to be older.

I doubt almost anyone over 25 or certainly over 30 wants to be older/perceived as older. ;D But in and of itself being an 80s kid is pretty cool. Yeah, some people can have fuzzy memories back to age 3 (even 2 1/2 maybe) and I'd pretty much agree 11 and 12 year olds are like "proto teenagers".
j know.  I don't think anyone wants to be seen as old especially if they are in their 30s and 40s. I bet being an 80s kid was more fun as you guys had non stop fun everyday.  One of my first memories I can remember is  living in my second home and playing super Nintendo.  And I say the same thing as 11 and 12 year olds are in middle school while 10 year olds aren't.


Not directly, but their behavior implies this. If you don't like today's kid culture and you want to distance yourself from it, you probably like to be older.
I can understand that.  There are people out there don't like today's kid culture and are maybe glad they are older.

This video for 80s (and 70s) kids has been shared umpteen times on my facebook from friends. It's mainly UK based but you'd get most references. 2.5 million views says 80s kids are alive, well and making their childhood known.

HeEWtNaW6KE

I'm not saying 45 is old, just that it is a bit old for an "80's kid" if 35 is a bit old for a "90's kid."


Then what do you consider "old"?

Are you serious? I hear 80s kids going on about their childhood all the time... Star Wars, Thundercats, GI Joe, Care Bears, My Little Pony. It's everywhere on places like facebook and Twitter!


That's what they remember.

I doubt almost anyone over 25 or certainly over 30 wants to be older/perceived as older

What about someone older than 40?

I don't think anyone wants to be seen as old especially if they are in their 30s and 40s

unless you're getting grey hair then you might be considered as old.

This video for 80s (and 70s) kids has been shared umpteen times on my facebook from friends. It's mainly UK based but you'd get most references. 2.5 million views says 80s kids are alive, well and making their childhood known.

HeEWtNaW6KE


I like it!  :)

unless you're getting grey hair then you might be considered as old.
yep, having gray hair is one of the biggest signs that you would be considered old.

yep, having gray hair is one of the biggest signs that you would be considered old.


and as I'm now entered in the 40's I'm getting grey hair on the sides of my head.

and as I'm now entered in the 40's I'm getting grey hair on the sides of my head.
Yeah, but dont let your gray hair make you feel old.

Yeah, but dont let your gray hair make you feel old.


You're only as old as you feel.  ;)

You're only as old as you feel.  ;)
Very true.

I guess they want to live in the now and not the past.

This video for 80s (and 70s) kids has been shared umpteen times on my facebook from friends. It's mainly UK based but you'd get most references. 2.5 million views says 80s kids are alive, well and making their childhood known.

This is true, but its usually from a different more parental/middle aged adults perspective - i.e. thumbing their noses at current kids and usually blaming every ill of society on Facebook and modern technology. This depresses me because it makes all of us 80s youth seem like grumpy out of touch people, when we're not (at least I'm not). :)

While 90s (or any) nostalgists perhaps do this to a mild extent too, a present day 25 year old longing for the days of 1998 going to Blockbuster, taping alt rock songs off the radio, or watching classic Nickelodeon doesn't have that "Get off my lawn" vibe that a 45 year old longing for the pre-smartphone/youtube 80s does.

Maybe that's the difference, and why it still seems "cool" to like the 90s even if you weren't born at all or were only like 2 when they ended.

The 80's had plenty of cool things! He Man Masters of the Universe, Thundercats I have vague recollections of. The first music I liked was 80's, played on stations that mixed 80's and 90's songs. Being born in 1985 I barely lived in that decade, but I am well aware of quite a bit of it's pop culture. Kids who grew up in the 70's I'd consider old, and it's not a decade I'm much familiar with in terms of exposure to. There are things of today I don't like, not because it's intended for younger consumers, but if I was a kid or a teen now, I still wouldn't like it.

The 80's had plenty of cool things! He Man Masters of the Universe, Thundercats I have vague recollections of. The first music I liked was 80's, played on stations that mixed 80's and 90's songs. Being born in 1985 I barely lived in that decade, but I am well aware of quite a bit of it's pop culture. Kids who grew up in the 70's I'd consider old, and it's not a decade I'm much familiar with in terms of exposure to. There are things of today I don't like, not because it's intended for younger consumers, but if I was a kid or a teen now, I still wouldn't like it.


The mid 1980's was basically my time, the television had plenty of stations of children's shows to choose from and the radio had so much 80's music, that was why it was a fun time.

The perceived nostalgia or attitudes for both decades is very different. I see #YouKnowYoureA90sKidif things on Twitter and Facebook, and people on YouTube videos about how they were born in the 90s or wish they were; oftentimes its current teens born in 1999 who just want to be connected to it in even the teeniest bit. :D

What's interesting that I never remember seeing this en masse with the 80s at all! Sure there's some people born in 1979 1982 or 1984 who like it, but they're more the exceptions. I always kinda felt like one of the few people around my age (both online and in real life) who were diehard fans. I think of like the American Pie teens stuck in their Y2K high school era as more typical of my generation, not pining for the new wave and John Hughes era when they were 4!

I wonder WHY that is though? Perhaps the 90s was a really kid friendly pop cultural time, whereas lots of the cool stuff from the 80s is more teen-centric?

Obviously one reason you don't see it now is you'd have to basically be 30 (say 28 or 29) to even have a vague recollection of being a 3 or 4 year old kid in the late 80s, so it's not "young people's time" anymore and not as cool to talk about unfortunately.


I've said many times that I firmly believe it's the current "Web 2.0" age that's driving all of this recent '90s Kid hype among younger people. When I first started frequenting message boards back in the early '00s, I would occasionally come across those "You Know You're And '80s Kid If..." lists, and it was always people that actually grew up in the 80's commenting on them. It was essentially unheard of (at least from my experience) to see people born in the second half of the '80s like me even comment on those types of threads, nevermind actually attempt to claim any '80s kid "cred".

This seemed to change around 2007-08ish, when '90s kid posts and videos began to pop up en masse and go viral on Facebook and YouTube; posts and videos that didn't just talk about how great the '90s were, but actively attacked any kids that grew up in the '00s. By the beginning of the '10s, this had grown to a point where kids born in the second half of the '90s felt like they needed to claim some '90s "cred" (in order to avoid being labeled a spoiled, entitled brat by the collective online hivemind), in a way that people my age hadn't really felt compelled to do ten years earlier. That's not to say that there weren't people that grew up in '80s attacking younger kids for being "spoiled" or whatever back then. It happened, but just wasn't nearly as widespread in the early days of the internet.

To sum up this overly long post: I think it's the viral nature of today's web that makes it seem like the '80s got short shrift back in it's peak nostalgia years. If there had been a YouTube in 2001, I can almost guarantee there would have been thousands of "'80s Kids Rule!!" videos back then too.

I'm basically a 90skid. Born 1988, my earliest memory is 1991!

To sum up this overly long post: I think it's the viral nature of today's web that makes it seem like the '80s got short shrift back in it's peak nostalgia years. If there had been a YouTube in 2001, I can almost guarantee there would have been thousands of "'80s Kids Rule!!" videos back then too.


Hit the nail on the head!

This seemed to change around 2007-08ish, when '90s kid posts and videos began to pop up en masse and go viral on Facebook and YouTube


Yeah, that's probably due to the fact that until the mid/late 00s, the 90s did not seem that far away. I don't think I felt any nostalgia for any 90s year until 2010ish when the 90s "entered their 20s".

+ At least I was happy not to be a kid anymore and did not care about childhood for most of the 00s. People seem to get nostalgic earlier nowadays.

My 90s nostalgia just started, like in 2013 or 2014.

If there had been a YouTube in 2001, I can almost guarantee there would have been thousands of "'80s Kids Rule!!" videos back then too.

It would be kind of interesting to see what would happen if YouTube had started 4-5 years earlier.

I'm basically a 90skid. Born 1988, my earliest memory is 1991!


I'm an 80's kid and my earliest memory would be from 1985-1990.

I'm an 80's kid and my earliest memory would be from 1985-1990.


Please don't tell me that you don't have memories from before age 11...  :o

It would be kind of interesting to see what would happen if YouTube had started 4-5 years earlier.


The internet connection of a lot of households, especially in rural areas, was not very fast and therefore too slow for streaming and uploading videos. Before I had broadband internet (not available in my street before late 2004), I have watched videos from the internet but I had to download them first. That was totally different from today. Even in the early years of Youtube, videos did not load as smoothly as they do today. I only had a 1-3 MBit connection for most of the late 2000s.

Please don't tell me that you don't have memories from before age 11...  :o


I think I do, my memory is not that great from what it used to be.

The internet connection of a lot of households, especially in rural areas, was not very fast and therefore too slow for streaming and uploading videos. Before I had broadband internet (not available in my street before late 2004), I have watched videos from the internet but I had to download them first. That was totally different from today. Even in the early years of Youtube, videos did not load as smoothly as they do today. I only had a 1-3 MBit connection for most of the late 2000s.


Inland, wouldn't it have taken longer for videos to load because of the modem?

Inland, wouldn't it have taken longer for videos to load because of the modem?


Yes, dial-up or the digital dial-up (what I had = ISDN) was very slow and insufficient for Youtube clips. Even my first broadband speed was not great...

I'm an 80's kid and my earliest memory would be from 1985-1990.


Howard I thought you were 40 which means you were born in 1974 (or thereabouts).

I'm an 80's kid and my earliest memory would be from 1985-1990.


:o :o

I've said many times that I firmly believe it's the current "Web 2.0" age that's driving all of this recent '90s Kid hype among younger people. When I first started frequenting message boards back in the early '00s, I would occasionally come across those "You Know You're And '80s Kid If..." lists, and it was always people that actually grew up in the 80's commenting on them. It was essentially unheard of (at least from my experience) to see people born in the second half of the '80s like me even comment on those types of threads, nevermind actually attempt to claim any '80s kid "cred".

This seemed to change around 2007-08ish, when '90s kid posts and videos began to pop up en masse and go viral on Facebook and YouTube; posts and videos that didn't just talk about how great the '90s were, but actively attacked any kids that grew up in the '00s. By the beginning of the '10s, this had grown to a point where kids born in the second half of the '90s felt like they needed to claim some '90s "cred" (in order to avoid being labeled a spoiled, entitled brat by the collective online hivemind), in a way that people my age hadn't really felt compelled to do ten years earlier. That's not to say that there weren't people that grew up in '80s attacking younger kids for being "spoiled" or whatever back then. It happened, but just wasn't nearly as widespread in the early days of the internet.

To sum up this overly long post: I think it's the viral nature of today's web that makes it seem like the '80s got short shrift back in it's peak nostalgia years. If there had been a YouTube in 2001, I can almost guarantee there would have been thousands of "'80s Kids Rule!!" videos back then too.

These are actually excellent points. I wonder if its just that we weren't totally connected until c. 2009 so we just didn't get to share things en masse as easily, even if some people still thought them.

(bolded) That's definitely possible too, like a teen born in 1997 might claim they're a 90s kid (as opposed to just "a 90s fan", which of course anyone can be) in order to not get pigeonholed as "one of those spoiled bratty entitled generation kids!" Which I can kind of understand, I used to do the same thing, I hated when anyone older than me would lump me in with the punk kids of my day.

Even in the early years of Youtube, videos did not load as smoothly as they do today.

It would've taken longer to load up.

Yes, dial-up or the digital dial-up (what I had = ISDN) was very slow and insufficient for Youtube clips. Even my first broadband speed was not great...


the connection speed is much better than from what it was 20 years ago.

Howard I thought you were 40 which means you were born in 1974 (or thereabouts).


Yes I was born in 1974 but I think I can remember some of my childhood, I have a decent memory.

:o :o


I can remember most shows I watched from that time period.

I think it was because it's largely a social media thing, not so much something people talk about in real life. Back when the 80s kids were in their teens and 20s the Internet was around but there wasn't really a strong social media presence. I also think nostalgia wasn't quite as popular in the 90s and early 00s compared to now even if it was definitely popular.