I miss this decade. Music was beautiful. Fashion was bright, fun. Movies were also great, there were many originals and not many re-makes. I miss my parents being younger and getting me all those awesome playthings. So many people were still here.


I watched this one on MTV so many times as a child!

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Ok, going back to 2016 now!

Everything! Please don't go back to 2016! Stay in the 90's with me! 😜

I miss this decade. Music was beautiful. Fashion was bright, fun. Movies were also great, there were many originals and not many re-makes. I miss my parents being younger and getting me all those awesome playthings. So many people were still here.


I watched this one on MTV so many times as a child!

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Ok, going back to 2016 now!



I miss the days when people communicated with each other instead of staring down at their phones all the time. ::)

I may have lived during the 2000s, but I miss when 80s nostalgia was really good and it didn't have a lot of rabid people speaking against it. *cough* self-proclaimed 90s kids *cough*

Everything! Please don't go back to 2016! Stay in the 90's with me! 😜


Don't you want to be in the 80's?  ???

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I miss Walkmans.

Personal: I miss watching my mom put on her 80s make up! It was a long process. And make up back then had a particular scent.

Pop Cultural: I miss VHS movies!

Personal: I miss watching my mom put on her 80s make up! It was a long process. And make up back then had a particular scent.

Pop Cultural: I miss VHS movies!


Weren't VHS movies still around during the 90s and early-mid 2000s?

Weren't VHS movies still around during the 90s and early-mid 2000s?


Yes, but I mean VHS movies from the 80s.

Personal: I miss watching my mom put on her 80s make up! It was a long process. And make up back then had a particular scent.

Pop Cultural: I miss VHS movies!


I miss VHS movies too now that VCRs are dead.  :(

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Both are still great for hunting down radio/TV airchecks to provide to closest experience to actually being in that late, great decade today! Of course I was basically an "80s toddler" and even though video footage of me exists from 1986, 1987, 1988, and 1989, still gives off that mystifying spirit being the last decade before the global village was born and also nowadays the best mix of having earthiness and superficiality to make things exciting. All of the old TV shows, songs, and magazines are tools that I'd love to use to make total experiences. Who needs social media when you can not just talk face-to-face, but listen to someone's voice on a phone (no "Press 1" robot menus, please) or even write a handwritten letter that shows off your personality, even if un-PC now to the environmentalists?

I miss VHS movies too now that VCRs are dead.  :(


Well, you could still buy used ones.

Well, you could still buy used ones.


Yeah, that's true but I'll just keep my old collection of VCR tapes just for memory.

face to face conversations instead of staring down at your phone.
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instead of

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Yeah, that's true but I'll just keep my old collection of VCR tapes just for memory.


Same for me, even though most of the VHS tapes that I kept were from my parents.

Mainly the hair metal and Michael Jackson's peak.

Same for me, even though most of the VHS tapes that I kept were from my parents.


I may transfer them all to DVD someday.

I miss so many things from back then.

I miss the old tech stuff: VHS, cassette tapes, walkman's, tube tv's because you can see it from any angle and not have to worry about dead or stuck pixels. 

I miss the atmosphere where, overall, people didn't take themselves too seriously.  Yeah, there were times to be serious, but people tried to have fun when appropriate.

I would have missed the 80's slasher flicks the most, like Friday the 13th movie series.

I miss the atmosphere where, overall, people didn't take themselves too seriously.  Yeah, there were times to be serious, but people tried to have fun when appropriate.
That's exactly what I'm missing too. The positive outlook and optimism. We've been in constant crisis mode since around 2000 and no end in sight. :-\\ 

I miss so many things from back then.

I miss the old tech stuff: VHS, cassette tapes, walkman's, tube tv's because you can see it from any angle and not have to worry about dead or stuck pixels. 

I miss the atmosphere where, overall, people didn't take themselves too seriously.  Yeah, there were times to be serious, but people tried to have fun when appropriate.


Nobody lived in this PC world we're living in nowadays.

That's exactly what I'm missing too. The positive outlook and optimism. We've been in constant crisis mode since around 2000 and no end in sight. :-\\


You could count basically the 1980's and 1990's as the 'the optimistic era'. 1982/83 to 2001, the energy was so optimistic and bubbly.

That's exactly what I'm missing too. The positive outlook and optimism. We've been in constant crisis mode since around 2000 and no end in sight. :-\\



Nobody lived in this PC world we're living in nowadays.



You could count basically the 1980's and 1990's as the 'the optimistic era'. 1982/83 to 2001, the energy was so optimistic and bubbly.


Things have changed a lot.  Hopefully it'll start to brighten up, but with how things are I think it's unlikely to happen anytime soon. 

Better eyesight, not having to have aches and pains, and work colleague compainship.

For Me, having more hair.

Family Sitcoms

I miss 1980's air travel - there was so much more service then, even when flying in economy.

Maybe, AG. I can only think of Lockerbie as an online friend of mine lost their sister, brother-in-law and nieces on Pan Am 103.


So tragic!  :\'(  :\'(  :\'(

I miss sexy teenage comedies.

Revenge of the Nerds gets a lot of crap these days. Even Molly Ringwald penned an op-ed on the sexual politics of The Breakfast Club.


Oh, NONE, not a one, of those 80s teen comedies (or drama/comedies in the case of Breakfast Club) would pass muster in today's climate. Not a single one. They would be cancelled immediately.

People seriously need to stop practicing "presentism". The viewing of the past through the lens of today's mores.

Revenge of the Nerds gets a lot of crap these days. Even Molly Ringwald penned an op-ed on the sexual politics of The Breakfast Club.

Because back in the days people never got offended or insulted about those films, it was all about having fun in The 80's.

The Toys

The Toys
You can always buy them on eBay or backyard sales?

You can always buy them on eBay or backyard sales?

Yes, that's true.

casual conversations (face to face)

casual conversations (face to face)
Those pesky mobile phones get in the way!

Those pesky mobile phones get in the way!

Exactly! O0

casual conversations (face to face)

Those pesky mobile phones get in the way!
Which also leading towards the art of conversion dying off.

The big hair.

Don't rely on sitcoms for what kids/teens/adults actually wore in the past - that's why a recent show set in the 1980s looked at documentaries made then - especially at people in the background.

rotary dial phones.

rotary dial phones.


Rotary phones were gone by the 80s. There may have been some hanging around, but that's only because they hadn't been replaced yet, not because they were part of the 80s.

Depends on the country and the economic situation of the parents.

Depends on the country and the economic situation of the parents.


In the US, rotary phones were largely replaced by touch tone in the second half of the 70s, and certainly by the 80s. After a while, it wasn't even a matter of economics, because touch tone phones were all that was offered. I'm not sure why Howard would "miss" them anyway. Compared to touch tone, rotary phones were very inconvenient. It's like a person saying they "miss" ice boxes when refrigerators came in. Could be he was just confusing "what do you miss from the 80s" with "what do you remember from the 80s".

Rotary phones were gone by the 80s. There may have been some hanging around, but that's only because they hadn't been replaced yet, not because they were part of the 80s.

Our Family had one but I think we also had a push button phone too and an answering machine as well because we've been getting a whole lot of phony phone calls almost all the time back then so we let the machine get them.

I miss the body I had in the '80s.


Cat

I miss the body I had in the '80s.


Me, too!  ;D

I miss the body I had in the '80s.


Cat

I miss having a skinny body during The 80's.