1980s Memories Of Technology!

39 thoughts on “1980s Memories Of Technology!”

1. I miss these days.

2. Columbia house sucked.

3. TVs had remotes even in the 50's,..

4. These things lasted through the 90s too. CD and DVDs didn't really take over until around 2000

5. Oh, the good old days. Miss video stores.

6. I just found an old cassette from 81 that i had to put the pencil to it 2023

7. My friens grandfather was 21 in 1980, his exposure to technology was IBM computers and MS-DOS.

8. 👍🤔🎬😮😉😀🥇❤📼📺📡

9. Omg…..I just went bk in time. The best era ever!!!!

10. 😂 “It wasn’t easy trying to hear a song, sometimes you needed a pencil to fix a cassette tape.” Yeah, the dark ages had their pros and cons.

    The worst part of the digital age is the lack of creative art for physical media like vinyls, dvds and music albums.

    The Evil Dead dvd had the book of the dead with flesh texture as the case. Some music cds had vinyl record texture on too of it.

    Bands like Dead Kennedys had the best music booklets EVER!

    The movie Seven came in a notebook styled case like the killer had etc.

    😢

    Im a musician and ill never get to drop and album traditionally. I was robbed of my creative spin.

11. We look at the 1981 Delorean that we have and laugh. If only it take you back to the 1980's.What fun to go back in time.❤❤😊

12. Nothing like renting a movie from the " back room"…lol

13. We 90's kids had this stuff too, I remember when VHS and Cassettes both phased out after simultaneously existing along side DVDs and CDs.

14. I just saw an ad for *Flower Moon*.

15. 4head vcr 400dollars

16. I still have my Cassettes and vhs 📼 their Awsome

17. I actually miss having a VCR

18. BEST DECADE TO GROW UP IN, MISS THOSE DAYS SO MUCH😭😭😭😭

19. That wasn’t just 80s a lot of these was still going on in the 2000s

20. yeah, but it was fun!!!!

21. I’m born in 1984 but as far back as I can remember, people always had a remote control for the TV 🧐

22. We didn't even have a TV but we had chainsaws, tractors rusty hotrods and 4 dollar cases of beer and.85 cent packs of cigs that could be had at any age. Plus there wasn't broke dick handicapped parking, handrails and sidewalks.

23. Back in the late 70s KRLA an oldies AM station out of Los Angeles had a Elvis Presley hour I would stay up and record the show on cassette.

24. We didn't have a VCR in the 80s. They were too expensive then. I don't think anyone I knew had one then, either

25. Nice video👍 What's the song playing in the background?

26. We had beta

27. I had the disc player that was even before the VHS took off. My dad still won’t get rid of those old recordings off VHS 😂.

28. …You kinda sound like the narrator from "The Wonder Years"!…

29. I always used my finger to fix cassettes….also during the so called “satanic panic” days I would borrow albums from my friends whose mothers didn’t mind what they listened to and made my own censored versions to listen at home hahaha…the ingenuity of a preteen metal head

30. I used to buy cassettes and record favourite music!! 💃

31. One of the worst parts was leaving a cassette tape on the passenger seat of your car and coming back a few hours later in the middle of the summer to find a big glob of plastic stuck to the seat. 🤣

32. Did all that!

33. I have a few mixtapes I made.
    The pencil fixing brings me back. I made a mixtape that contained a Thelma Houston song dance mix. It was the long version mix. I played this tape so much that eventually it got caught in the machine. When I pulled it out I noticed it was creased and there was a burned surface. It was like part of the magnetic strip had been scraped off. I had tried to fix that tape. I even took it to someone to try and get it fixed and all they could tell me was, "You'll never be able to play this tape again."
    It would be years later that the tape which sat inside the box of cassettes never to be played again, would emerge for one good old fashioned try. I took a pencil and I pulled out the stripping. I tried my best to straighten the strip. There was a area that was so badly creased that you could do nothing. It was pulled in a way that one wrong move would break it. I fixed everything the best I could and then with a closed breath stuck it in my stereo. If the tape could get past that one part it would be fine. And it worked. The tape played. It's a painful thing as a child when you create all these things and pride yourself in how you made them only to be told it can't be fixed. But sometimes miracles happen.

34. We had giant tv remotes in the 80s newer TVs. They were always fairly easy to locate. I get kinda tired of going on a mission in my living room or bedroom looking for the Amazon fire 🔥 remote that’s ridiculously small.

35. Remember you were told never to rewind tape in VCR but to buy a separate rewinder

36. Our TV in the 1970s HAD a remote. They had been around for a long time.

37. TVs did have remotes, my grandad had one in the 80s.

38. I so miss those days…I was an "expert" at making mixed tapes!!!

39. Looks at this mf hair 💀💀

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