Before smartphones. Before streaming. Before life got weird. Daily Retro Content from the 70s, 80s, and 90s!
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Seinfeld was never actually funny. People just convinced themselves it was because everyone else watched it.
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We didn’t have a thousand photos of our childhood.
We had 27, and somebody’s thumb was covering nine of them.
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We didn’t carry hand sanitizer everywhere.
We ate nachos at the bowling alley and simply accepted our fate.
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We didn’t have noise-canceling headphones.
We had Dad yelling, “Turn that crap down!” from three rooms away.
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We didn’t order dinner from an app.
We called a complete stranger and trusted him to find our house using directions like “past the big tree.”
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Being able to entertain yourself is a life skill. We could spend an entire afternoon with a basketball, a deck of cards, or absolutely nothing, and somehow never needed Wi-Fi.
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Did you ever put baseball cards in your bike spokes just to make it sound like a motorcycle?
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Back in the ’70s, supermarkets had price stickers on practically everything. Cashiers memorized prices and punched them in by hand. One wrong sticker and congratulations, you found the original life hack.
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We didn’t have parental controls on the TV.
We had a parent walking in and saying, “What the hell are you watching?”
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Nobody asked if we wanted to go outside.
We were already outside because apparently the house had business hours.
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Not knowing where everyone was every second was healthy. Your friends could disappear for the weekend without posting 24 updates, and somehow civilization kept functioning.
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Music meant more when finding it took effort. You waited for your song on the radio, saved money for the album, read the liner notes, and listened to the whole damn thing.
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Back to the Future is not the best 80s movie.
The Goonies is not the best 80s movie.
The Breakfast Club is not the best 80s movie.
Rocky IV is the best 80s movie.
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The original parental control was Dad hearing the TV from another room and yelling:
“YOU BETTER NOT BE WATCHING THAT.”
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FINISH THE SENTENCE:
Saturday mornings weren’t complete without ________.
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Back to the Future is a good movie, but it’s not even close to being the best movie of the 80s.
Change my mind.
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