Just reading the stuff, made me feel like I'm getting old!  ;D

This list is totally idiotic. I was born in '87 and even I can remember a few things on here. I'm sure an '80er could.

I think some are missing the point. Many may indirectly remember b/c they heard about it or were told about it by other means. Unless you have had direct (meaning you experienced it firsthand) experience, you may not remember.

Sad, but true, McDonald's stopped using styrofoam containers....damn!

I think some are missing the point. Many may indirectly remember b/c they heard about it or were told about it by other means. Unless you have had direct (meaning you experienced it firsthand) experience, you may not remember.

Sad, but true, McDonald's stopped using styrofoam containers....damn!


I agree. On one hand though, the terms they use shouldn't be "never" it should be "may" or instead of "always" it should be "probably" Some things they are very correct about - I mean, we can't turn back the hands of time and say some of us lived these things we we most certaintly didn't, but some things are fairly unfair in their assessment. As I pointed out about the Johnny Carson vs. Jay Leno thing - that's showing that they can't be truly serious because it would be nearly impossible for not one single 1980 person to not ever have seen the Tonight Show prior to Jay Leno in 1992. That's just pure ignorance, if that's the case.

06. They were 11 when the Soviet Union broke apart, and do not remember the Cold War.



Are you telling me that nobody born in 1980 has any first hand memories of the cold war? That's really stupid. They should defidently be able to remember some of it or at least the last few years('89-'91).

15. They have likely never played Pac Man, and have never heard of "Pong."



Are you kidding? I was born 7 years later and i've played pac-man. And if they mean that they didnt play pac-man during its peak popularity I'd say that pac-man was fairly popular throughout the whole decade.

Everyone I've met that was born in 1980 has a very old school quality to them.  They're so old school they almost seem like they were born in the 70s with the rest us aging Gen Xers.  Even though they are unlikely to remember 1984 in detail since they would have been only 3 or 4, they seem really aware of a lot of 80s and early 90s pop culture.  They don't speak about it like a kid born in 1987 that did a ton of internet research, they kinda have "yeah I was there" attitude, with more detail.  Sometimes I get fooled into thinking they were there like I was, but then I realize no they quite weren't.        

It's gotten to the point that I don't even consider people born in 1980 to really be "born in the 80s".  Not really.  They are not what I think of, niether are the born in 1981 folks.  To me "born in the 80s" is more descriptive of someone born in 1984, or 1986, you know someone like that.  Someone like Mandy Moore, Lindsay Lohan or Hillary Duff.  They tend to be more clueless on matters of the 80s, and sometimes even early 90s.  I say that because I've found so much common ground between people born in 1980 and '81, but not anywhere near the same with a person born in 1983, 1984, '86,...

(and Yes, I know that some kids today know all about pacman and rotary phones. Just work with me here)

Yaknow, I think a great many of you missed the point. When you speak in a generalization like this, of COURSE youre going to have people going "Nonsense! I still have my atari and I was born in 1989!". That, however is not quite the spirit that the list was intended. Of course theres always going to be bright kids that stayed up until 11, but for the most part Leno has always been on the Tonight Show, or there has always been one Pope (until last year).

Yaknow, I think a great many of you missed the point. When you speak in a generalization like this, of COURSE youre going to have people going "Nonsense! I still have my atari and I was born in 1989!". That, however is not quite the spirit that the list was intended. Of course theres always going to be bright kids that stayed up until 11, but for the most part Leno has always been on the Tonight Show, or there has always been one Pope (until last year).


OKay, to set the record straight, I don't think any of us missed the point - it's just some of the stuff they wrote was not factual (as they state on their website) To never own a record player would be untrue - records were still being sold and record players were also still being sold as part of home stereo systems. All I knew as a kid were of records, audio tapes and 8 tracks. CD's I had never heard of until I was ten years old.

It's like telling someone born in 1950 that they never knew what it was like without a TV. Or they never knew what what the "Your Hit Parade" was. Or World War I was "ancient history" to them. Or they never danced the Charleston, jitterbug, or swing.

It's just stuff like that I guess which annoys me. Call me nit picky...

OKay, to set the record straight, I don't think any of us missed the point - it's just some of the stuff they wrote was not factual (as they state on their website) To never own a record player would be untrue - records were still being sold and record players were also still being sold as part of home stereo systems. All I knew as a kid were of records, audio tapes and 8 tracks. CD's I had never heard of until I was ten years old.

It's like telling someone born in 1950 that they never knew what it was like without a TV. Or they never knew what what the "Your Hit Parade" was. Or World War I was "ancient history" to them. Or they never danced the Charleston, jitterbug, or swing.

It's just stuff like that I guess which annoys me. Call me nit picky...


Couldn't agree more (as usual). :)

To use another example, Jerry Springer was born in 1944, and he has often told the story he recalls about he and his parents immigrating to the US on the Queen Mary, passing the Statue of Liberty, when he was five (1949) and how assimilating to the country was for all of them. Or, on a lighter note, getting into baseball and stuff like that in his childhood, and listening to his parents' collection of 78's.

These lists would be like telling someone his age, they never knew anything before Elvis or thought malt shops were always around, etc.

Couldn't agree more (as usual). :)

To use another example, Jerry Springer was born in 1944, and he has often told the story he recalls about he and his parents immigrating to the US on the Queen Mary, passing the Statue of Liberty, when he was five (1949) and how assimilating to the country was for all of them. Or, on a lighter note, getting into baseball and stuff like that in his childhood, and listening to his parents' collection of 78's.

These lists would be like telling someone his age, they never knew anything before Elvis or thought malt shops were always around, etc.


Exactly - Everyone has their own experiences. I guess when I see a list like that it's considered stereotyping, even as funny as it is and can be, some people may believe we actually don't know this stuff just because we weren't born around or before it - which is absolutly false.

The Jerry Springer was a good example of how he grew up around stuff that was before his time, but still made an impact on him nevertheless.

I really despise when people talk about not remembering a time before digital cameras, DVDs, Ipods, etc, and lump this to people born in the 1980s and early '90s.  Just because a technology came out when you were under 18 doesn't mean you can't remember before it existed.  At best, they weren't alive when they were invented.  It's Gen Zers and the very latest Yers, people born after like 1993 or 1994 that can't even recall a time before such gadgets were popular.  Or those lists that act like people don't remember anything until they turn 13. That's bullcrap. 

Everyone I've met that was born in 1980 has a very old school quality to them.  They're so old school they almost seem like they were born in the 70s with the rest us aging Gen Xers.  Even though they are unlikely to remember 1984 in detail since they would have been only 3 or 4, they seem really aware of a lot of 80s and early 90s pop culture.  They don't speak about it like a kid born in 1987 that did a ton of internet research, they kinda have "yeah I was there" attitude, with more detail.  Sometimes I get fooled into thinking they were there like I was, but then I realize no they quite weren't.        

It's gotten to the point that I don't even consider people born in 1980 to really be "born in the 80s".  Not really.  They are not what I think of, niether are the born in 1981 folks.  To me "born in the 80s" is more descriptive of someone born in 1984, or 1986, you know someone like that.  Someone like Mandy Moore, Lindsay Lohan or Hillary Duff.  They tend to be more clueless on matters of the 80s, and sometimes even early 90s.  I say that because I've found so much common ground between people born in 1980 and '81, but not anywhere near the same with a person born in 1983, 1984, '86,...


I agree here.  Being born in 1990, I've never really considered myself "born in the nineties", but rather "born with the nineties", if that makes sense.  Of course I technically was born in the 1990s, but considering I am more or less the same age as the '90s I was there for the whole decade pretty much, even though I can't remember the first 3-4 years of them. Being "born in the nineties" in the general sense implies someone who's a little kid now, somebody born in like 1994 or 1997 who is named Emily, Jordan or Hannah.  Those born in 1990-1992 are more akin to the late '80s kids than they are to people born deep in the '90s, just like '80ers, '81ers and even '82ers are almost like the late '70s people (from what I can tell, of course). That is, most of my knowledge of the popular culture of the 1990s, not counting 1999 and maybe a little 1998 is learned for the most part, even if I can remember 1996 and 1997 well enough to get a general feeling of the time.  And of course the 1990s holdovers into the 21st Century helps out a lot in making the 1990s not seem truly before my time.