Here’s a sobering thought. If you were a teen in the 80s, the 1950s were ancient history – but they were no further from from you than the 80s are to the teens of today.

Things that we took for granted sound absolutely crazy today. Here are 21 things your kids won’t believe about the 80s.

1. You had to type in computer games

It took days, and then the bloody things didn’t work.

2. You had to look stuff up in books

There was no Wikipedia to tell you that no, Bob Holness didn’t play the sax in Baker Street. So we believed all kinds of bullshit.

3. People wanted to ban pretty much everything

Mary Whitehouse could find filth in the most innocuous programmes, terrible horror films became public enemies thanks to over-excited tabloids and faintly rude songs about shagging became national scandals.

4. There wasn’t any internet

It existed, but only a few boffins knew about it.

5. Or apps

Etch-a-Sketch was about as high-tech as we got.



6. Or GPS

We just got lost.

7. Trolling was limited to landlines

Trolling was more innocent then: you’d call a random number, ask if their fridge was running and then howl “Well! Better run after it!”

8. We watched things on VHS

Imagine YouTube on a really small laptop screen, viewed through a really dirty window. That was our home entertainment.

9. Kids loved Ceefax

Ceefax was our internet, pages of text that hid behind the pictures on TV and… changed… very… slowly.



10. Cabbage Patch Dolls were a thing

For no good reason the world went mad for faintly sinister-looking plush dolls in the 1980s, with parents battling each other in the aisles for the must-have monstrosities.

11. Everybody was on smack

Or at least you’d think so if you watched TV, where Zammo from Grange Hill fell into heroin addiction and you couldn’t move for charity singles urging kids to just say no. Ironically enough, the only way to get through the Grange Hill cast’s Just Say No record involved taking heroic quantities of drugs.

12. We memorised phone numbers

Everybody knew all the phone numbers, or wrote them down in books.

13. We spent hours rewinding videotapes

Imagine Netflix, but instead of clicking an icon you go to a petrol station, come home with a box the size of a hardback book and spend hours rewinding the tape before you can watch anything.

14. Mobiles were massive

Only three people had mobiles in the 1980s, because nobody else could lift the damn things.

15. We made mix tapes

Forget Tinder. To impress potential partners we curated C-90 cassettes and used our best handwriting on the inlay card.



16. We made the most of music videos

Today, music videos are simple and pretty formulaic. In the 80s, they were insane, big budget blow-outs, probably because everyone was on drugs.

17. All of the haircuts

But particularly mullets.

18. Phone books were vital

Whether you were looking for a plumber or wanted to ask someone out on a date.

19. Everybody expected World War III to happen any minute

We really did, and it turns out we got a lot closer to fiery nuclear armageddon than even the most paranoid of us believed. Given the imminent threat of burny death from the skies, the haircuts and music made sense: if we were all going to die, we might as well do it while looking and sounding amazing.

source:http://www.naijsnews.com/2016/04/19-things-your-kids-wont-believe-about.html

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There was no indomie

There was no flatscreen lcd tv

There was no reporrting ur teachers to parents

There was no porrn

There was no N1000 and N500 note

There was no epileptic power failure like this

Lagos traffic no craze like this

TV station WNTV resume by 3pm with national anthem and close by 9pm with national anthem

Abortion pill no plenty like this

Pant and bra costume in music video depicting sex no yapa like this

..The list long