The members of the "Backstreet Boys" were most likely born in the eighties.

People start calling you "sir" or "miss" (actually, that makes anyone feel old)

You don't get carded when ordering a beer (and you feel really old when the other people in your group do)

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers's first album is now over 20 years old.

The "little girl" in E.T. - The Extraterrestrial is now old enough to drink and flash David Letterman.

Some of the special effects in Return of the Jedi actually look pretty low tech to you now, even though you remember being blown away by them when you first watched them.

Conversation I had with an 18 year old cousin:

• "How can 'Du Hast' become popular? It's in German"
• "'99 Luftbaloons' did in 1982, and so did 'Rock Me Amadeus' a year or two later"
• "How should I know that. I wasn't even born yet."

Technically she was born by that time, but way too young to remember when it came out. Talk about making me feel old.

Working in a stores mask dept. at Halloween in '93. These two kids, approx. 13-15, picked up one of our masks and were commenting on how cool it was and that they thought it looked familiar. I said to them "Yeah, its like the mask on the cover of Quiet Riot's Metal Health album. Too bad we don't have a red leather straight jacket too." The kids looked at each other then back to me, then one of them, totally straight "Quiet who?" The first day in my life I ever felt old. It's just been downhill from there.

Telling a junior at work I didn't like the new cover version of Bananarama's hit "Cruel Summer," and her saying to me that she didn't know it was a cover!!! Same goes for that song which samples the Dream Academy's "Life in a Northern Town." (sigh)

While being the "guardian" while their mother was on her honeymoon, I was driving around in 1994 with my cousins (born in 1980 and 1981) when "Don't Stand So Close To Me" came on the radio. I had a moment of nostalgia and shouted, "It's THE POLICE" and they both shouted, "Where? Where?" as they were looking for a cop car....

I went to Tower Records to find an '80's music cd, and the store attendant told me that "most of those cd's are in the oldies section".

Several big name bands that I listened to in highschool are making their comeback tour together and are playing at a local club with an occupancy of under 400. Tickets are available at the door the night of the show.

I am 28 and work with mostly high school age kids and someone at my job got a new funky hair-do. The boss at work is 33, and we both agreed the girl's hair was exactly like Pat Benatar or Joan Jett. None of the HS kids knew what we were talking about!!! They all said, "Who's Pat Benatar?" I just about died!

I saw a Commodore 64 in a basement the other day. It looked ancient!

The fact the hardly any of our cartoons are on tv anymore; and seeing The Smurfs on the Cartoon Network.

I was babysitting my little cousin, she was watching re-runs of Mork and Mindy on Nick at Night's Tv Land. When I realized what she was watching I exclaimed, "That was my favorite show when I was little!!" My cousin looked at me in horror and said that Tv land only ran classic old shows and that if I saw the orginal episodes I must be really old.

You listen to your all-time favorite music on an oldies station. "Wasn't that our prom theme?"

You remember when JAWS came out the first time.

You go to rent "The Princess Bride" at Blockbuster and the clerk says, "Is that a new one? I've never heard of it."

You remember when loading a computer game involved a cassette or floppy drive and a nap to pass the time.

In the video shop the other day I noticed that the DVD section was getting bigger. This reminded me of when I was a child and the video shop had Beta videos "Upstairs" and the "VHS" cassestes downstairs. I wonder will VHS outshine another competitor or will people in 10 years time be kicking themselves when they get the CDs, CD roms and DVD disks all mixed up - as they all look the same?

While I was working in a car wash, I overheard a mother talking to her son about car/cell phones. The son was amazed to learn that people didn't always have car phones, and that they used to have cords. He was serious too.

I was network administrator at a university, and asked out one of the girls at the college to a Chicago concert. I mentioned, during the lull before the concert, something about REO Speedwagon. She had never heard of them. I thought that the guy in the seat next to us was going to have a heart attack . . .

When you look at your cd collection and they're all "Greatest Hits".

Hearing REM's The One I Love, a song popular when I was a college freshmam (the year being 1987) being played on a Classic Rock station

My 15 year old cousin was having a sleepover. My aunt and I were chaperones. We brought over "The Breakfast Club", thinking they would enjoy-after going nuts over "She's All That" Not only did they NOT relate to any of the movies emotional angst, but they were quite bored with it and make jokes about the way Molly Ringwald dressed. That made me feel old, but also mad! They just don't know what the real teen stuff is!

I was in a christian book store when a couple of teenagers who were looking at some CD's made a slight noise when they came upon the Stryper CD. I realized the noise they were making was laughter when they talked about how old the band was. Needless to say, it made this 31 year old feel ancient.

I feel old when I talk to the 20 somethings at work about...... the days before videos and I used to take photos of fav bands off the tv....... buying records, using the oven to heat food because microwaves were not around yet.....seeing latest movies at the Drive Inn (Dusk to Dawn's were great) At my first job they has mobile phones as big as bricks with a black box attached with a cord which was carried around.....fax machines as big as a large photocopiers you had to dial the number and "yell" at the person at the other end to "I want to send a fax" (calling for OZ to Japan was the pits!) Telex machines were state of the art. One PC at work to be shared amongst 20 people. They had floppy disks the size of LP records..............mmmmm I feel OLD!

In Communications class, my friends (all almost 19), and I (just turned 19), where talking about 1980s commercials that we were gonna use on our project. The scary part was, all the commercials aired in 1986, and for some reason, we knew them all. I mentioned the commercials to someone else in high school last year, and she had absolutely no idea what I was talking about, and she's the same age as me. Scary!!!!

At my brother's best friend's graduation party, which was 4 days before our high school graduation, one of my brother's friends bought over the old Nintendo console, and a few games, Contra and Super Mario 1, 2, and 3. All the kids at the party that were over 15 were playing, while the little kids had absolutely no idea what we were playing!!! Another thing about that party, we put on a compilation with ELO (Electric Light Orchestra's "Black Days, White Nights," which was in Billy Madison, and George Harrison's "I've Got My mind Set on You", amongst other songs from the 80s. Not only were we listening, we were actually singing along!!!! Once again, the little ones had no idea what were were listening to, and thought us older kids were strange. That sure made me feel old!!!!

My boss told me his daughters didn't know how to run a record player.

Early this year in 2001, I bought the Superman DVD pack. Being 25, I grew up with the Christopher Reeve movies, and I used to work at this Best Buy only about 4 years earlier when I was 21, which to me wasn't that long ago. When the kid at the counter saw what I was buying he said "Suuuuperman" in a saracatic way. Still I erroneously figured he was my age or at least around my age, 20 or above. So I said, "Yeah dude, they're really cool especially the first one, got a directors commentary and everything, you should check it out". The guy put his little scanning gizmo down on the counter hard, looked up to the ceiling and rolled his eyes, then continued to scan with a laugh and said, "Uhhhh, well Superman is a bit before my time, it was some kind of '80s thing. The only Superman I know is that Lois & Clark series. I was only born in '83" This 17 or 18 year old then gave me the bag in a disgusted way. There I was buying a Superman DVD pack, 25 years old and this 17 or 18 year old kid treated me like a 50 year old man buy a Beatles CD. This was a DEATH BLOW to my gut. This was the first time I ever felt seriously old, I've been feeling bad ever since. Realizing that later in this new '00 decade I will turn 30 and a 10 high school year reunion isn't that far away has me &%^*#$%% bricks too.

I turned on the Tv the other day and i put on QVC to see what they were selling and they had Rainbow Bright and Popples on and they talked about them as if they were new. If they only knew that I still have my Rainbow Bright dolls, Alf dolls, and popples sitting on my self in my room still.

I was watching a "Sesame Street" video with the little kids I took care of at the day care center I worked at during the summer. Born in 1982, I grew up on "Sesame Street." My little guys, as young as 3, where watching and knew all of the characters, whn all of a sudden, the Count came on the screen. Me and the girl I was working with were like "Oh look! the Count!" A four year old girl turned around to us and said, "Who's that?" God, was I shocked!!!!! I found out that the Count was only recently bought back, but the tape was from '86, so the kids naturally wouldnt know who that was since the tape was made at least ten years before these guys where born!

Realizing that your witness to seeing the 70's coming around the second time when you thought you left it far behind in 81.

I am 31, and was telling a younger co-worker about Fancy Ass Quick Zip jeans and how my girlfriend used to wear them when we were teens. He did'nt know what I was talking about!

The first time it occured to me that I was getting older was when I went into a store to buy a bottle of wine, and noticed that the cards that say "You had to have been born after this date to purchase alcohol or cigarettes..." and BOTH of the dates are in the 80's.

I felt old when I told a new hire at work that he would have to get rid of the Fonzie sideburns. He replies "who is Fonzie?".

While watching TNT you find out one of your all time favorite movies is now one of their "New Classics".

You remember when the most controversial show on TV was "The Simpsons"!

...reading this list! I didn't even know there WAS a cover of Bananarama's "Cruel Summer"!

I decided to go back to college for an electronics engineering degree, and in the main corridor is a glassed in display of some old technology devices. One of the items in there is the model of computer i used when i was a teen.

The fact that Eddie Murphy used to sing! My students didn't believe me, so I had to get out the song(on one of my many retro 80's cd collections) and play it for them

Watching action movies at the cinema and recognising so many stunts copied from the '80s. Any stunts with trucks seem to be taken straight from Licence To Kill (1989). Also seeing 'big' '80s stars in minor, walk-on roles.

A couple of months ago my 13 year old sister asked me "Wasn't Bon Jovi back in your day?" I was listening to him even before she was conceived!

When movies like "Fright Night" are being shown on American Movie Classics!

I was christmas shopping last year, and as I was passing by a group of three teenage girls, I overheard one of them commenting on a dress in one of the shop windows, "That looks really old, I mean really, really old, like from the eighties old." Now, I'm only 30, but it really does make you feel old. it is hard to think of the eighties as "a long time ago".

Hearing songs like "Rapture" by Blondie and "Magic" by The Cars being called "classics" or "oldies" because they are now 15 to 20 years old, and I remember hearing them when they were new, or seeing some of them as "Sneak Preview Video" on MTV. Of course, that was when MTV showed videos... Also, having my friends daughter, who is only 14, saying "Wow, you bought that record and it only had one song on it ???", refering to my 45 RPM records form the 1980's. Heck, I'm only 30, does that make me ancient ??

My little sister & I were talking about being left out of things, & somehow I got "I think we're alone now" stuck in my head. I started singing & she got the queerest look on her face. To this day, "Who's Tiffany?" is still ringing in my ears!

My daughter didn't know what a "record player" was and I had to explain, "It lets you play these things that look like big, black cd's."

One day at work I mentioned John Lennon and a coworker looked at me and straight faced said "He was one of those Beatles guys, right?" I could have died.

Reading this 80's message borad and realising you can relate to EVERYTHING on the list

When I use to work in Pediatrics, I tried to cheer up this little boy who just got his arm casted. When I told him he could still play games at the arcade, he replied, "what's an arcade?"

Realizing that now, in the year 2002 for Cripes sake, stone-washed jeans, big belts, and off-the-shoulder shirts are in style again! I mean, reviving clothes from the fifties and sixties is one thing, but the eighties? Jeez! Can't they wait twenty years or so before they...oh wait...never mind...

Alot of my co-workers are in there early to mid 20's. I am 33 now and a former metal head, they are all going to an N'Sync concert. I'd rather die or actually go to a Judas Priest concert.

Realising with astonishment, that kids born at the start of the 80's decades can now vote, drink, and get into over-21's clubs!

Every once in awhile someone, always younger than myself, will call me "sir" or "mister". Sheesh...!

when u go in to stores and EVERYTHING from when you were a child and growing up is now considered RETRO... i.e: rainbow brite, strawberry shortcake, pound puppies (the original), jem & the holograms. then when u ask the kids who r wearing this stuff about it they have no clue and only like it cause its "retro"

I was having to force my 10 y/o little brother to watch Back to the Future,(that's bad enough as it is, but wait...). When it was over, he asked, "what was up with those funny clothes?" "That's what they wore when Dad was growing up," I said. "No, at the beginning, before he gets in the car..." Yikes.

I was making a comment to a friend (born in '70, like I was) and her little half sister (born in '82) started talking about mullets. I mentioned that Jehrri Curls were the black peoples' version of mullets, and she looked all confused and said " who is Jerry Curl"? 'Nuff said. I felt downright geriatric!

These kids don't know who Fraggle Rock, Garbage Pail Kids, and He-Man and She-Ra, the list goes on. We are now in the "millenium" generation, so that makes us X'ers feel old automatically.

Beta machines...thats all I gotta say...lmao.

Reading everyone else's posts. I need a time machine. Listen to Eddie Money's (I wanna go back) song, close your eyes and just imagine. It's great.

Watching television and seeing a Nissan ad use the Smith's "How Soon is Now" to sell a car. How appalling that the anthem of my college angst was shamelessly used for a commercial!

You remember 22 cent stamps.

I worked at a Domino's Pizza as a delivery driver and this 14-year old phone girl says her favorite song is "sweet dreams" by Marilyn Manson. We laughed and told her it was the Eurythmics and she says "Im rythmic?" Another time she had some Bob Marley incense and she didnt even know who Bob Marley was!

When I look at the photos in the picture gallery and thinking that I am look at my parents generation when I think... whoa! This is my generation!

I didn't feel too old when 80s music came out on those TV commercial compilation collections; I still didn't feel too old when 80s music started being called "oldies"; but I started checking into the AARP when Wilson Phillips, a 90s group, became "oldies"!!! When the generation AFTER the 80s becomes oldies, the children of the 80s are in trouble.

My nephew and I were at the comic book store and he asked me if they made comics when I was a kid and I told him of course. He then looked at me and said but not spiderman because he is a new guy.

I had my first "I'm getting OLD!" attack when my little brother, eleven years younger than me, asked, "Vinyl means RECORDS, right?" Another bizarre moment was when a young coworker came into our office with headphones on and singing along. I caught "Kiss Me" and exclaimed with glee, "'Kiss Me' by Tin Tin!" She looked at me with great puzzlement and I said, "Kiss me, your love is better than wine? -It's from the Eighties." She said no, it was by some other current band (that I now can't remember the name of). I remember realizing that there are kids who don't remember when there were no scanners at the stores, when there were no personal calculators, when red LED display watches were state of the art (and now they're collectors items), when there were no ATM machines. And the biggest shocker was kids wearing fashions of the 70s when that decade is an embarassment to me. Polyester leisure suits? GACK! I also noticed myself bemoaning the fact that they don't make music like they used to.

You know what an ATARI game is.

You can remember all the hoopla over "Cabbage Patch Kids"

when you remember that crazy scary man on Captain Kangaroo with the weird body suit painted like internal organs called Slim Goodbody. Bad enough to remember that, but most people today are like " Captain Who?"

No one knows what Garbage Pail Kids are/were. When I hear "What's the movie RAD about?" or "Michael Jackson used to look different?"

I was at a Tag Sale and overheard a 10 year old girl say to her mother, "what's that mommie?" while pointing at a Cassette Tape . . .The Mother replied, "Thats what we had before CD's"

I was talking to another Monte Carlo SS owner about how many i have had . . .i said "yeah i guess i have had a monte carlo since i got my license in 1992" he replied "1992!!! i was only 7 "

The fact that my first crush was Steve Guttenberg.

Looking at my high school photos and seeing everyone with their hair "pumped up" a mile high (at least)!!

Realizing that they have made a sitcom about the 80's!

I came across a kid the other day who did not want to believe that turntables or "record players" as I called them were commonplace. He seemed to think that those turntables were meant for DJ's. He must of been around 14 or 15!

I told a 17-year old co-worker of mine that "when you are older and you get out in the world...." I stopped myself right there!

Last night I stopped by my local grocery store to pick up some things, including a six-pack. The clerk who was checking me out was new so he didn't know me. He scanned the beer and then looked at me and said "Ma'am, I hate to do this but can I see your ID?" Of course I happily handed it to him, assuring him that I love being carded. He then looked at my card and said "Wow! I was way off there! I thought you were a lot younger than that!" (I am only 30) Then he said "I didn't mean it like that...." I was just laughing at him and told him that he made my day. The whole situation was just too funny.

I can remember the days of "Sesame Street" when Elmo wasn't the most hyped character--Big Bird was.

I am 31 and am a school counselor. I felt VERY old, when I learned that our high school students had NO idea how to dial a rotary phone.

I was born in 80 - the reigning years of My Little Pony and Rainbow Bright. A few months ago, I was talking to my 7-year-old niece and had brought over some coloring books. "Hey look Kayleigh," I said holding up a picture of a pony. "This almost looks like My Little Pony!" Kayleigh's response? "You have a pony?!"

My Mom was cleaning out some closets, and my 16 year old nephew and I were helping her. He found an old VCR in the closet and asked if he could have it, and if it still worked. We plugged it in, and for sure, it worked fine. He asked for the remote, and when my Mom found the old CORDED remote, I thought he was gonna laugh us out of the room!!! I remember when we bought that VCR brand new!!

I was dating a guy who I knew was younger than me, but apparently, I didn't know how much younger. One day, I was listening to a CD and he came in and asked who I was listening to. I replied, "Crowded House, DUH, where were YOU in 1983?!" he simply replied, "Kindergarten"...

When I realized that I could actually remember, very vividly, things that happened over 20 years ago. Or seeing that Raiders of the lost ark is now considered a classic. Or how no one remembers Loverboy. How depressing!!!!!!!

My a friend and I were were watching Transfromers: The Movie, the movie that is required watching for all '80s kids, and we showed it to his little brother who was born in 1991. This kid who wasn't even alive in the '80s, thought it was "old and boring". This really made us feel really really old and terrible, since we thought Transformers would be cool forever.

When I was a teen in the 80's, Duran Duran was my ultimate favorite band. I saw them in an interview on MTV the other day, and did they ever look old! Made me feel old, too, since I know Nick Rhodes is 9 years older than me!

When you start surfing the internet for 80s sites. THAT's when you feel old.

You find events that you remember not only in the last chapter of the history textbooks that are currently being used but in the NEXT TO LAST as well (seeing one's infancy, childhood, and the first half of one's adolescence now considered 'history' DOES make one feel old)

When recently preparing for a dance recital (I was the only 25 yr old in amongst 14-16 yr olds), the teacher had picked "White Wedding" for our song. I was pretty happy about that. They asked who did it. She said "Billy Idol". "Who??" and one girl pipes up.."Oh my god, My DAD has that tape!" That was the first moment I realized that I was not cool anymore.

You've seen the Pilot of Cheers both on the original airdate and on Nick at Night.

Kids will never know who Pee-Wee Herman and "Pee-Wee's Playhouse" was. Instead, they'll be exposed to mindless junk like "Pokemon." For shame!

I hear songs on the radio (new songs) and I remember the baseline of the new song being a popular song that I loved in the 80s, like hearing Bruce Hornsby and the Range "That's Just the Way It Is" as the baseline of a TuPac Shakur song or hearing "Faith" by George Michael being redone by Limp Bizkit.

It makes me feel old when I mention the TV show Fraggle Rock to a little kid and they look at me like I'm crazy and say, "Fraggle WHAT?!"

When I was looking around in an antique store and spotted quite a few toys I used to play with when I was little. (I'm only 29!)

I was @ Disney World for my college Spring Break this past March. My best friend and I went to see the Indiana Jones Stunt Show @ MGM, and I can guarantee that all the little kids in the audience had no clue that this was a movie at one time. I bet none of them even know who Harrison Ford is!

"Caddyshack" is considered a comedy "classic".

You say "Gag me with a spoon", and your friends look at you funny.

You remember when they had blank cassette tapes and a portable tape recorder.

Whenever I visit my relatives in Georgia, and my first cousins are now grandparents.

Mention "PicturePages" to any kid now. They will look at you like you've grown another head!

I channel-surfed by PBS the other day, and stopped short when I noticed reading rainbow was on. A quick glance made me realize that the episode was not recent--and the tell-tale credits told me why--the episode originally aired in 1983!!!!!

scanning the radio stations the other night and the dj said, "we will be right back with more of.......the ancient eighties!!!" ancient???? i can accept "dated", even "classic".....but ancient???!!!

You wax poetic about how you could retrieve files from cabinets instead of a computer.

I feel old when I scanned through this page and realized that EVEN people born in the early '80s are starting to feel old themselves.

When I mention Beta movies to my little brothers friends and they ask, "What's Beta?"

When I describe vinyl records to my younger sibling as "really big CD's."

I put an old tape of Jem on for my younger sibling and his friend. I told them that this was a really cool show and what I watched when I was their age, etc. And they fell asleep!

Growing up, I used to think "oldies" were the '50s, '60s and '70s. That was what "oldies" was to me and anyone else around my age. Anything before the '80s was old. But now in the post-2000 years, finding out that the '80s music and that the '80s pop culture are considered oldies makes me feel REALLY old. I never thought a decade I remember being part of would ever be considered old, but just a decade whose time is passed. People my age affectionatley called the '80s old school. But the kids now don't even think of it as old school, to them it's RETRO. It's oldies to them. I try and rationalize this and try to feel better by reminding myself that for most of the '80s I was in elementary school and a little kid, but I realize that the day the '90s will be considered "oldies" is not far away. I dread the day my teen years and very early 20 years of the 1990s will be seen as oldies,......shoot, it's probably already beginning to happen to the '90s. *sigh*

This one drove me really nuts... the other day I was at a play rehearsal and someone mentioned Cyndi Lauper and a girl next to me went "Who the heck is Cyndi Lauper?" This made me feel sooo old for some reason.

I'm 23 years old, and I was listening to a favorite from my middle school years in the very late '80s. I was listening to Young MC's "Bust a Move" song from 1989, which always brings back great memories of 6th grade. My next door neighbor's 15 year old son was with me and he said "hey I heard that song before! My teacher listens to it a lot." Sigh. His teacher listens to it a lot. Not his 20 something year old teacher. But his 33 year old teacher. I did the math and yup, his teacher would have been a 19 year old teenager or 20 in 1989. I realized then that none of my '80s music (and probably my early '90s stuff too), is considered cool anymore. I wanted to check into the old folks home right then and there.

I am 29, my son is 9. We were scanning channels on TV one night. I stopped when I saw the Jackson 5. I said, "Look! There's Michael Jackson!" He said, "Where?" I said, "That little black boy with the red jacket." My son said, in all seriousness, "Mom, Michael Jackson is NOT black." He really thought I was out of my mind. I started laughing and could not stop.

I'm 33. When I was in high school, music was everything. Pop radio still flourished. Now it's all "Alternative". Alternative to what? Pop is dead. I once made the mistake of telling a teeny-something from the '90's I wanted to be a rock star when I was his age. His response was "Why?". I guess when you resample the latest resample for a hip-hop compilation, it makes sense, but geez, how bout a little creativity?

I was at a music shop discussing some of the great rappers of the '80s with the store manager. We discussed all the famous and controversial rappers of the '80s and even early '90s such as Ice Cube, Ice T, and 2 Live Crew. One of the young clerks who was about 16 or 17 heard our conversation and asked us in complete seriousness, "Whose Ice Cube?" He was serious, he really never heard of Ice Cube, and no he didn't know who the others were either. This made me feel so damn old, and I'm only 23. But I knew at that moment that I was no longer part of the youth culture of America.

A couple of years ago, Def Leppard was coming to my town and I was pumped to get tickets. I was so excited I called for tickets during my 3rd hour high school English class while my students were working on their assignmnent. One of my students asked who I was going to see and when I told him, he said with a confused look on his face, "Who is Death Leppard?" That's when I realized I was old and out of touch with the music scene.

When you can remember when Nick at Nite consisted of Mr.Ed, Father Knows Best, The Dick Van Dyke Show, My Favorite Martian, and Dennis the Menace and thinking then that Nick at Nite was only for shows that were OLD. Now Nick at Nite consists of Cheers, Cosby Show, All in the Family, and Family Ties. Shows I remember watching when they were brand new! And knowing that today's kids must think of Nick at Nite now the same way we thought of Nick at Nite in the 80s. Talk about feeling old!

I feel old when I hear about high school students having "'80s Dress up Days". I'm only 26 years old, but that make me feel sooooo OLD. These teenage kids are dressing up in clothes I grew up in! I remember when I was growing up in the '80s and early-mid '90s, we only had dress up days for the '50s, '60s and '70s. The '80s were too recent and too modern to start having dress up days back in 1994. Yet starting around 1999,(sheesh the '90s weren't even over) the kids have been having dress up days for the '80s!!! My God people tell me I'm in a bad nightmare! I guess I have no choice but to accept this. Where's my cane and walker?

While at the Wherehouse, I mentioned several cartoons & shows(that I grew up with; He Man, Heathcliff,Smurfs,Pee Wee Herman,etc.) to some younger kids and they looked at me like I was from Mars. Also...Some of my peers believe that a lot of meterial from several rappers, Limp Bizcuit (re did George Michael's Faith), Alien Ant Farm (re did M.J.'s Smooth Criminal) and...even B.S.'s wretched cover of Joan Jett's "I Love Rock N' Roll" are original!!! Geez! And I'm only 18 years old. Fortunately,A subsitute teacher said I have great taste in music while we were in a conversation. (about school,goals,pop culture, etc.) Well, she told me that she grew up in the 80s and was into New Editon, The Cure, Def Leppard, and Debbie (now "Deborah"...in which I told her and,NO OFFENSE, she probably felt a bit left off) Gibson...I thought it was great. (I also like new wave, rock...any generation (execpt 'new metal'), and pop. (except for the crude pop on Mtv today) I can't believe that some of my peers have no idea on who Deborah Gibson, REM, or even The Clash are!!!!

Talk about a nostalgia trip...I was in Target in late March, and I saw that the "Popple" was revived!! The Popple?! I loved this toy! I played with it when I was little, but I'm sure any kid who is young now would have NO CLUE what this toy was!

The Turner Classic Movie Channel is now playing movies like Urban Cowboy, Endless Love, and Grease! Movies we grew up on are now on the Classic Channel!!!

Realizing that younger people have different names! In the 80's there were like a trillion Jessica's and Jennifer's and Christina's!! Now it's all these weird names like Haley and Madison!

I was with some people preparing to go see Phantom Menace. We were all talking about our first time seeing Star Wars. This one guy hadn't said anything, and I asked him when he'd first seen it. He said, "On video. I was one year old." I laughed. I know I shouldn't have, but all my life I'd been hearing from baby boomers about Beatles this and Woodstock that, and I finally got to say *I* was there and someone else *wasn't*! Woohoo!

i was born in 1982 and the fact that jem, he-man, she-ra, captain n,and many of the cartoons i watched when i was younger are now considered old and dated makes me feel old.(sigh, not all of us who came around in 1982 are clueless about the decade we were born in and kids today have never had a weekday or saturday morning in front of the tv filled with cartoons or a good one i should say,i pity them all having to be subjected to that pokemon, digimon, and powerpuff girls garbage!!!!)

You know your a child of the 80s when somebody says the word President and Ronald Reagan comes to mind.

Mentioning the New Monkees and no one around you even knows who the original Monkees were.

I'm not quite sure why the 80's make me feel old? Perhaps it's because I was a goofy little kid and all of the things that made me the happiest kid in the world are no longer around like My Little Ponies and Gobots and Transformers, The A-Team and other stuff like that. I'm only 25 so I'm sure I'll be telling my kids and grandkids some of the things that I've experienced when I was younger.

Seeing '80s music videos on a network called VH1 CLASSIC. Classic? Couldn't they just call it VH1 '80s? Calling those videos, even the stuff from 1989 "classic" makes it sound so......ancient.

A 16 year old girl I work with was playing music trivia with me one day. One of the questions was about Duran Duran. She asked who they were. She had never heard of them before! Also, in one of my classes last fall I heard someone ask who Bon Jovi was! I couldn't believe it. I'm 24.

You go to fan sites with message boards devoted to '80s shows like Knight Rider, A-Team, Miami Vice or Dukes of Hazzard, and you find out that they are surprisingly dominated by teenagers and children. Therefore you are one of the few people there that actually remembers when these shows originally aired.

You realize that most of the teenagers of today look at Madonna the same way a lot of us thought of Cher back in the '80s, - - just a goofy middle aged female pop singer from a long time ago that refuses to act her age.

Five years ago, when I was a 22-year-old middle school teacher, a student came to me and said, "Ms. D., guess what I found out? Daisy Dukes were actually named after a person on TV named Daisy Duke!!" *sigh*

I was listening to our oldies radio station out here, which I remember being OLDIES (50'2, 60's) they were playing 80's music!!

You can remember at least one of the original Star Wars movies when they first came out in the theater, like "Return of the Jedi" from 1983. You also find yourself telling people of high school age, and even college age, all about the Star Wars craze that lasted into the mid '80s.

Have you seen the new, anorexic My Little Ponies?! Where have the pudgy cute ones gotten to? Garage sales and ebay... what is this world coming to?

Hanging out with my girlfriend's little sister and one of her friends. They just graduated high school, and I suddenly realized that when they were born, I was going through puberty. And a few years ago, with a different (and older) girlfriend, when I said,"remember when there was no internet, just BBS's?" And of course she said, "No."

Duran Duran's origional line up reforming and they are all now in their 40's....still great though

The BABIES that played Michelle Tanner on the TV show Full House, Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen, turned 16 this year. Them and everyone close to their age, (born in 1986 and 1987) are out there driving around on the highway with you. People their age won't remember anything from the '80s, and it's unlikely they even remember much from the early 1990s. Early '90s grunge bands like Nirvana and Pearl Jam are complete nostalgia to them. Feel old yet?

Showing my younger Brother's mates my "Garbage Pail Kids" collection.

I have found some weird things in my dresser drawers: Pound Puppies Birth Certificates, Cabbage Patch Doll Birth Certificates, Cricket's Care Center ad and Care Booklet, Cricket tapes and clothing, and an old Cricket book called "Around the World With Cricket," which came with a tape. I happened to glance through the book, and there was a Russian flag in it, and it said "USSR"!! The book was dated 1986, and I cracked up!

Reading Teddy Ruxpin's Adventure books. Better yet, finding Teddy Ruxpin in perfect condition 10 years after you haven't played with him, and the weird part is that he probably works perfectly.

You can remember when those cheap, home made looking, early '80s music videos with budgets of 5 dollars were actually considered cool.

I'm 29 yo. I remember some 'theme' parties that I used to go called 'The 50s party'or 'the 60's party'... I'd just realize I'm old when I saw on a bulletin board (dude! bulletin boards) an ad saying: "This saturday come on and enjoy the 80s party...". Later, some teens from my street began to ask me questions like how to dress, how to dance 80s music and stuff...When I began to 'teach' them...they laughed as hell... :-)

You remember those ridiculous two-piece VCRs that weighed like 400 pounds and had a wired remote with a 3 inch cord.

You can remember when Michael Jackson was a Black guy that may have been shy and a little eccentric, but basically acted and looked normal, instead of being the carnival like freak show he has been since the late '80s.

You knew who ALF and Mr. T were years before they became pitch men for various commercials in the '00s.

When Drew Barrymore stopped looking cute(as in a child)and started looking good...

The legal young adult men and women entering college this year, as well as your local Army reserve, were born in the year 1984. The freshmen class entering high school this year, will consist of kids born in 1988. Forget the '80s, these people probably won't even remember a whole lot before 1996.

when I looked through a soap opera magazine for past and present photo's together. most of the photo's that are "the past" are from the middle 1980's.

I'm 25 and I feel old even around people my own age sometimes because I still listen mostly to cassette tapes. A 19-year-old guy saw them once and said, "You still listen to 8-tracks?!" ... I don't think I'll be giving up my non-DVD-playing VHS recorder either - most of my videos are "old" and out of print!

When you still remember that to get 30 men on Contra, the code was ( up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, start ) and to get 99 men in Super Mario Brothers you had to jump on the turtle shells at the end of world 6.

You can remember when Eddie Murphy was one of the biggest A-list stars in Hollywood, and did films other then children's comedies like Dr. Dolittle, Nutty Proffesor, Shrek and the PJs.

People your age can now sleep with someone 8, 9 or 10+ years younger, and they will no longer be be breaking any laws.

When my kids are watching Mr. Rogers Neighborhood, and its the episode where he goes to a movie studio to watch some of the filming of "The Incredible Hulk". My kids don't even know who "The Incredible Hulk" was. Also, when we go to a toy store and I tell my kids, "They have so much more cooler toys now then they did when I was a kid." And I realize my Dad said the same exact thing to me when I was a kid!

Tom Cruise is 40 years old.

Hanging out at the main "Back to the Future" website always makes me feel old. Most everyone there are a bunch of teenage kids born after 1983 and they have no memories of when the first film came out in 1985, or even the second and third one in '89 and '90!! I have to explain ALL the little in jokes and pop culture quirks about the 1980s in that triology of films to them, makes me feel like a total geezer and I'm only 23.

I must say that I laughed a great deal when I read all the comments posted here, as I can relate to all of them. A few things make me feel older as I am 33 and I was a teen in the 80's. I would have to say not getting carded when you purchase booze or a biggie ... seeing the kids I babysat when I was 16 all grown up and having kids of their own ... or just finishing high school or close to it,I say to my young son I wish I had those cool toys like you have when I was your age, while the statement is true it makes one feel old nonetheless. Another one is when I hear about the local night spots (clubs) doing a retro 80's night and the best 80's hairstyle and clothes wins a prize!! Wow I can recall hearing about 'retro' nights for bars when I was younger, But it was the 50's 60's and swingin 70's , ahhh how times have changed LOL!

You can tell if something is from the early '80s, mid '80s, or late '80s. You also remember the distinct pop cultural (fashion, music, movies) as well as political differences between the late '80s and early '90s. I've noticed that most kids born in the '80s, see no difference between the late '80s and early '90s....and in some cases even mid '90s. My younger cousins think everything up to around 1995/'96 were the Eighties. It's all the '80s to them.

the other day i dug out a box of books from when i was a kid, it was full of those mickey mouse and time life encylopedia learing books. My very young sisters wanted me to read to them, so i did...only i quickly found that they were rather outdated, "Children living in the Soviet City of Lenningrad like to...." or, "These children are looking at the Berlin wall".. i felt soooo old!! lol

I grew up thinking the '50s, and '60s, and even the '70s, were soooooo freaking barbaric and backwards. Not just in terms of the low grade tech of those decades, but also looking at the barbaric social problems of each decade. So it's hard to believe that the children and teenage kids of today most probably look at the '80s the same way we always thought of those other decades. I always thought of both the '80s and '90s as being modern times! The '80s getting the retro treatment makes me feel so OLD!!!

My 15 year old cousin, who was born in 1987 and stands a towering 6'3, asked me to teach him to drive recently. I felt ancient and a sudden feeling of terror overtook me when I realized people in his age group are driving. I remember holding him in my arms when he was just a baby. It was a surreal expereince knowing that this grown looking man who was born in '87, is now beginning to drive cars.

CNN did a news report on the history of hip hop a while back. They talked about how hip hop was fresh and new enough that the children of today can still think of it as "theirs", and old enough for "adults" to appreciate and enjoy. When it got to what about hip hop the adults can enjoy, it didn't zero in on stuff from the '70s as I was expecting, but instead it flashed on graffiti that said "Public Enemy" with "1989" written next to it. Something about that little clip really disturbed me and made me feel just terrible. I guess it's just hard to believe that pop culture from '89, even the hard core gangsta rap, is music that is so alien to the kids of today and that it's only for the "adults". Watching that made me realize how disassociated even the very late '80s are from the current youth culture. And it is if it's only something that the "adults", the "grown ups", or worse....the "parents" of the world can appreciate.

Once when I was on another message board, this kid born in the mid '80s posted a thread asking who Boy George was. Everyone got a good laugh out of it and told him it's best he never find out. Still, you could just feel everyone on that bulletin board who was born before 1981 collectively feel old at the freakin' same time.

Madonna is now a smooth middleaged skank with a decent stylist/s instead of a young skank with no taste and too much body hair. Turtlenecks and flares that were considered nerdy in the 80's are now all the rage, while tops with shoulder pads you could land a chopper on and acid wash jeans are filling the racks in opp' shops.

I'm 30 (and my parents would have said I'm no longer to be trusted--heh!). Recently, my 7-year-old daughter told me her new favorite TV show is "The Cosby Show" (courtesy Nick at Nite--gee, thanks!). When I told her I watched that show when I was a kid, and that the girl who plays Vanessa is about my age, my daughter looked at me like I'd lost my mind. "This is a new show, Mom," she said. "I haven't ever even seen it before." The other night, my daughter wanted to watch a movie. I told her to go ahead and put the "video" in. She promptly corrected me: It's a DEE VEE DEE, Mom. Finally, as if The Gap commercials weren't enough to make me sit up and notice my mortality, it seems, lately, all the ad execs (who must be my age, and should certainly know better than to demean our generation's culture just for a few bucks) are using 80's music in their spots. The worst part? I recognize the songs and the target market doesn't. Ouch, that smarts.

I'm a 24 year old undergrad, and the kids I go to college with are so damn young. I began to really feel my age when I found a flyer on my car that said, "'80s RETRO Night Next Saturday!". Now I wasn't even that old back in the '80s, I was born in 1978 so I was only 11 when the decade ended, but I experienced it enough for something like this to make me feel like a really old man. Most of these 18 and 19 year old college kids have little or no memory of the '80s, and I know if I go to the party, I'm bound to be one of the few people there that actually remembers when the 1980s were popular the first time around.

Ever talk to these teenage kids that don't know what an Atari 2600 was? It's like talking to people that don't know what that thing we call oxygen is. I can understand these teenagers not knowing what the Pong video game from the '70s was, but it's just plain wrong to not know what an Atari is.

Paula Abdul is a 40 year old woman, Madonna is 44, and Cyndi Lauper is 49. Amazingly, all three of them have defied the laws of ageing and are still hot. Middle aged hotties, but still hotties nonetheless

Listening to Pop Goes The World by Men Without Hats and realizing it's a different world, and you are completely alone in wishing things were back the way they once were.

The best thing about being 36 is I can legally date women half my age.

You know that "Mr. T" isn't a cleaning detergent.

Bon Jovi officially became a geriatric rock band this year when the youngest and most famous member Jon turned 40. Yes, Bon Jovi is now thought of as an old folks nostalgia group in the same way most of us thought of The Rolling Stones, KISS and Aerosmith.

Hearing and seeing '80s songs used as jingles for commercials makes me feel OLD!!! I know a lot of people think that it's great to have '80s songs back and used like that, but to me and many of my friends, it's just another depressing sign that the '80s have become an old timers decade. For instance when I was growing up if I heard some Beatles song used in a Toyota commercial, I didn't immediately start thinking how cool this group from the '60s or '70s were. Likewise these days I can't ever watch Bananarama's "Venus" video without thinking of Gillette shaving gel for women.

When I was surfing the Internet looking for 80 nostalgia stuff, I found a site that told how you could tell if you're stuck in the 80's. One of the signs was looking for Snorks whenever you go to the beach. I read this aloud to my fiance, whose 7 yr old son piped up, "What are Snorks? Are they like seashells??"

You can now run for President.

Isaiah Thomas is the Indiana Pacers head coach, and the only thing people here will talk about is how he won the 1981 title for Indiana University.

Trying to justify to my 10 year old son why he must wear elbow pads, knee pads, wrist pads and a helmet to ride his skateboard. When I was a kid, there was no such thing as protection! Just, here you go kid, have fun. Same with seatbelts -- no one ever used them back in the day.

my memory of the 80's was when i got my First P.C. it was a 386sx 10mhz 1mb ram 2mb disk drive (hard drive) 512k graphics card and no sound card but it has MS-DOS 4.0 on it and i had police-quest, kings quest and space quest on it all made by SIERRA i had the machine in 1989 and my dad bought me the games in the same year and i have still got the machine today (still in running order)

"VH-1 Classic", the best channel in the world to find '80s music videos. Yes they are really called classics now. And brace yourselves...occasionaly I've seen them throw some early '90s videos in there. So '90s kids beware, you're not safe from the "classic monster" either.

You realize that the Fonz, Bo, Luke, and Daisy Duke can now become AARP members (oh well, Daisy still has a couple more years to go, but close enough anyway).

Novelty stores like Spencer's Gifts, Claire's, Tic Tac Toe (a Spencer-esque store in Freehold Raceway Mall, Freehold, New Jersey) and such have nostalgic items in the form of pens, keychains, small stuffed animals, notebooks, folders, charm necklaces, and such. For instance, in Claire's yesterday, they had a Care Bears SNAP BRACELET! Can you believe it?! I also saw pens of the Smurfs, Popples, Rainbow Brite, Care Bears, Kermit and Miss Piggy (I have Kermit), Strawberry Shortcake and My Little Pony, as well as printed pocket folders and small notebooks of these characters. I'm glad that companies are catering to our generation with nostalgia items, because it certainly is working. Nevertheless, I feel old looking at the items, because little folks (the kiddies) have no clue who any of these characters are (except for the Muppets).

These days I've been sounding a lot like the old Saturday Night Live "Grumpy Old Man" skit that Dana Carvey used to do many years ago. You remember how it went, "Back in MY DAY, blah blah blah...and that's the way it was and WE LIKED IT!"

Trying to explain to an 8 year old that Star Wars Episode 1 is NOT the first Star Wars movie and that E.T. actually came out when I was in kindergarten. Then getting that look that only children can give before the comment, "E.T. must be really old if you were in kindergaten when it came out."

You hear 80s music being played on oldies stations.

What makes me feel old is knowing that any history text book in all the elementary, high schools, and colleges in the world now feature a section in the back about the '80s and '90s. The two decades I grew up in are being "studied" as "history". Well at least most of these kids know about the 1990s. In only a few years from now there will be kids around that will view both the '80s and '90s as ancient history. Now that's something to ponder, this whole thing only gets worse!

I'm sitting at my computer complaining because it takes so long for a program to load (about 10 seconds), and then I remembered when it used to take 20-30 MINUTES to load a program from a tape drive on the Atari 7800! (Remember the old 'load the tape and push play'?)

These younger MTV-watching kids don't remember the 80s MTV like I did. I may have been born in 1982, but I can vividly remember the mid-80s MTV, when Tiffany, Duran Duran, Menudo, Billy Idol, possibly some Billy Joel and even George Harrison were in constant rotation in music videos. Now I'm lucky if I see that stuff on VH1!

There's no more TGIF on ABC. I certainly can't complain when "America's Funniest Home Videos" and "Whose Line is it Anyway?" are on Friday nights now, but TGIF made it all the better to be an 80s kid.

I'm a video game collector, and my collection consists of largely Atari 2600 and 5200 games. We all know that Atari was GOD back in the early 80s before the market crash in '83-'84 Recently, a few of my young cousins came over, and when confronted with my huge collection referred to Atari as "that 80's company that did Pac-Man or something, right?" Damn, did I feel old.

A few days ago at work, I was singing "I Love Rock n' Roll". A co-worker comes up to me and says,"Oh, Britney Spears!" Me: "No, Joan Jett." She says,"Who's that?" WOW, did I feel old!

You have very clear and vivid memories of Reagan's first term in office.

The Snuggle Bear had a cocky attitude now. Remember how he was cute and fell into a pile of clothes and had this sweet little voice. Now he talks like he's the all-mighty bear, and says he's still snuggly soft. Yuck, not with that attitude he's not.

I was listening to the radio the other day. As I was changing the stations the song "Flashdance (What A Feeling)" by Irene Cara was playing on an oldies station that normally plays songs from the 60's and 70's. Now they are playing 80's. What??? I remember when Irene Cara sang Flashdance on Solid Gold.

They just reissued a few of the Generation 1 line of Transformer toys from the '80s. Optimus Prime, Hot Rod and Ultra Magnus are back, but the ads call them "classic toys". Hearing that makes me feel terrible. Obviously these toys are marketed at adults that grew up with them, but there will be plenty of kids that weren't even alive in the '80s that will play with them. I can only imagine how ancient they must think they are.

I was born in the mid '70s, so anyone born beyond the very early '80s makes me feel like an old geezer.

I don't feel old, I'm only in my mid-20's, and there's lots of 80's nostalgia on TV these days. Of course it reminds me of when I was a kid but it also reminds me of just how lucky I was to have grown up in such a great decade. From 1980 on through to 1989 was a great time to be a kid and I know that from now on I'll always remember the decades that I grew up in. It was a great time to be young and it still is a great time to be young. :)

I graduated high school in 1993, so I went to high school in the years of 1989-'93. During that time the late '80s were always going Out of Style and the '90s were coming in. Now in 2002 hearing about the '80s coming Back in Style definately leaves me with mixed and surreal feelings. What I used to think of as old school back in high school has become "retro".

They are playing The Cosby Show on TVLand, you know the station for OLD TV shows like Mary Tyler Moore? LOL

My mom and I were talking about "The Goonies" today after spotting a T-shirt at the mall. We got on the subject of when me and my twin brother saw the movie (when it was released in the summer of 1985, I was 2 1/2), which was after its video release, which was after I turned 3. I have ben a "Goonies" fan since, and bought the video of it last year (in a clamshell case!). I still know kids my age who NEVER saw the Goonies! I even know someone who never heard of it!!!!

You see nicknames on the internet with the year of your high school graduation, like "Jennifer1989". Unfortunately you find out that the people with these years in their names didn't graduate high school or college with you back then, instead they were being BORN in that year. When that happens, talk about just feeling mercilessly old and embarrassed!!

Going into convenience stores and seeing the little sign next to the register that reads "you must have been born before such-and-such date to purchase alcohol"...and the date is 1981!

I can't believe that the kids born in 1985, 1986 and '87 are these big teenagers driving cars and stuff. I was watching a high school football scrimage game recently, and all I could think of was how these huge looking guys were too young to remember, or maybe weren't even around for say the Challenger explosion, the break dancing phenomenon, and most of the kid crazes of the '80s like Transformers, He-Man, Knight Rider, and Garbage Pail Kids. It's also bizzare when you realize that these people were only in elementary school just 3-5 years ago. Looking at these teenagers makes me feel like I'm in the Twilight Zone.

You can remember when Michael Jackson's "Thriller" album came out.

I was looking to download some G1 Transformers cartoons off of Kazaa when I came across a few episodes of Beast Wars. Beast Wars was a sequel to the original '80s Transformers cartoon and was popular in the mid-late '90s. Here was the description that was written in by some bratty kid,--"Forget the old 1980s Transformers. We are too young to remember those. Star getting Beast Wars they are so much better. Beast Wars WAY BETTER". What that punk wrote was pure sacrilege against Transfomers and the '80s. He wouldn't even have his little Beast Wars if it wasn't for the Generation 1 cartoon. But reading that also made me deal with the unpleasant fact that not everything I grew up with will be loved by the next generation. It also forced me to come to terms with the nasty fact that our generation doesn't "own" the Transformer franchise or any of these '80s characters, as they are constantly updated and reinvented. Even He-Man got a new cartoon for the 2000s. '80s toons have indeed become generational. But in the end WE know that most of them had their origins in the '80s.

You read these entertainment magazines and discover that a lot of today's hottest stars were born in the 80s.

Going to a nightclub after a night of bar-hopping, and being told "You won't like the music in there man - you're too old". I am 29.

I just turned 24 and the teenagers around where I live think I'm the ultimate old school guy. I think they even nicknamed me "old school". I don't know why though, I don't listen to or watch anything old school around them. But I'm 24 years old, so that makes me old school to them.

Found my old 8-bit Nintendo in the attic the other day. Still works, the graphics aren't as good as what's around now, but it's still fun and just as cool as ever.

Two things actually come to mind that make me feel old. 1) You can change a needle in a record player and 2) You remember the little plastic piece you use to put in the center of your 45 to make it fit on a record player (if your's didn't come with the adapter). I am 32 and my fiancee' is 24. I was actually doing ok reading these until my fiancee' commented, "Wow, you know what's weird is that you remember not having things like MTV or cable television and when I was born, they were just coming out". I reached for the Geritol at that point.

Hearing about a decade I grew up in (obviously the '80s), coming BACK in style makes me feel weird. I've never experienced such a thing before, it's just so odd. I wasn't around in the '50s and '60s so seeing them being treated as retro decades didn't bother me. Those decades were always old as hell retro decades as far as I was concerned. I was born in the late '70s, but I have zero memory of it, so the '70s retro in the '90s never bothered me that much. But the '80s, yes yes this makes me feel old. I remember all the stuff that's supposedly coming back in style and being played as "retro" at the night clubs.

If you listen to these teenagers today talk about their memories of the late '80s/early-mid '90s teen show "Saved by the Bell", they think of it with fond memories but in the same super nostalgic, super old school way that many of us here would talk about something from the early-mid '80s like "Joanie Loves Chachi" or maybe "Facts of Life". LOL Hey C'est La Vie.

Fonzie is 57, Richie Cunningham is 48, and Potsie and Ralph are both 50.

Knight Rider (1982), Dukes of Hazzard (1979), Greatest American Hero (1981), and A-Team (1982) are all 20 or more years old. Miami Vice and Transformers (both from 1984), ain't that far behind either since they're 18 years old. And I remember watching ALL of them when they were brand new in the '80s.

Man I can't believe Nick at Nite is airing The Cosby Show, Cheers, ALF and Family Ties. I grew up thinking Nick at Nite was funky late night retro channel that was made so that all the older people could sit back and watch the shows they grew up with in the '50s, '60s and '70s. And now Nick at Nite plays '80s shows!? Gawd, that means that now WE ARE the "older people"!!! Ugghhh...

I felt a sincere loss when Gordon on Sesame Street died. I'm only 18, but my 8 year old cousin could barely remember him.

Anyone remember when Nick Jr was actually cartoons? I mean cartoons drawn by people? David the Gnome, Maya the Bee, The Adventures of the Little Koala, anyone? And who could forget the puppets of Eureka's Castle? What are we letting our children watch these days?

Nick at Nite and TV Land airing '80s shows definately makes me feel OLD. I always thought those kind of channels were for stuff like I Love Lucy, Leave it to Beaver, The Honeymooners, Partridge Family, and Brady Bunch. And I thought that was always how it was going to be. When those channels start airing stuff you remember watching in first run, whoa that's when you know you're no longer just being young forever but it hits you that you CAN get old and you are getting OLDER. Right now I'm still extremely youthful and in my 20s, but I realize that things will never go back to the way it used to be pre-2000. The illusion that I will be a young kid forever has been shattered.

What makes me feel old? Reading the messages of people in their early and mid 20's reflecting back on the 80's and saying how they feel old. Geez, they cant possibly remember much before 1985.

remembering there was a time when a guy wearing an orange mesh half shirt with a matching pair of parachute pants was concidered cool...

When you start watching more VH-1 then MTV. Remember VH-1? It was the channel that used to be for the old people!

Nearly every big female pop singer around now, was born somewhere in the '80s. Shakira is the only one that comes to mind as someone that was born before 1980.

Michael Knight is 50 years old, and KITT is a 20 year old Trans Am.

You still remember the theme song to The Greatest American Hero. Remember he lost his alien instruction book and couldn't fly that little red suit. "Believe it or Not, I'm walking on air, I never thought I could feel so free-eee, flyin' away on a wing and a prayer, who could it be? Believe it or not it's just me....."

knowing that my nephew who was born in 82 when i was in 7th grade is turning twenty years old next month!

I'm 26 and I'm still not used to the idea of an "'80s retro" party or dance. I always thought stuff like that was only done for the '50s, '60s and '70s. Decades I was never really part of. At least that's how it used to be. This is going to get some getting used to, but by the time I'm used it, they'll probably come out with '90s retro dances. Eeek!

You can remember before 1987 when there was just one Star Trek series around and it was all about Kirk and Spock. Today there are 5 different Trek shows out there.

You find yourself telling "When-I-was-your-age" stories to today's teens.

You remember when Reagan was shot in 1981.

You remember watching the TV show "Thirtysomething" back in the '80s and thinking that was a show for crusty older people, or as you thought back then, the "adults". Back in the '80s people in their 30s were SOOOOO OLD and "grown up" like your mom and dad.

I was in Kay-Bee Toy Store after work today, and I found a large, boxed nederheart Care Bear sitting on a rack at a selling price of $16.99. Included in the package was a Wish Bear rubber keychain (I have the Wish Bear plush keychain), and a videocassette--"Tenderheart's Birthday Surprise." Oh, come on! What 3-year old is gonna want that?! The chances of a 20 year old buying it are so much higher, ESPECIALLY if a rare video is involved!!!

These kids today have no idea what Super Pursuit Mode is. For shame! Get into a car with any self respecting Child of the '80s and yell out "time for Super Pursuit Mode!", (especially when you are late or in a hurry) and they all instantly know what you are talking about.

I feel really old whenever one of these kids born in the '80s talk about their memories of the '80s and they invariably talk about something from the very late late '80s and/or early-mid '90s. Yes even the mid '90s! I hate that, that is so freaking annoying to me that these kids call the first half of the '90s the Eighties. I understand that that's all they can remember, but dammit that time wasn't the real '80s! I've come to the conclusion that there's no way anyone born after 1981 can have any *concrete* memories of the real '80s. The real '80s being everything that happened in the years of 1980-'87. Anything that happened after 1987 was the phase out time, but that's the only '80s these kids can remember. I always tell these kids born from 1982 and onwards that Vanilla Ice, Wayne's World, Saved by the Bell, and Hammer were not the part of the REAL '80s, but they never seem to get it. LOL

You know you feel old when you still think that KITT and Doc Brown's DeLorean were cool cars, no matter how dated they really are.

You remember the days when a lot of people said Michael Jordan would never win a single NBA championship because he was the ultimate scorer, and not enough of a team player. You also remember the first Air Jordans that came out in the mid '80s, back when everyone was just startin' to wanna "be like Mike".

You know you're well past your prime if you know who J.J. Jackson, Nina Blackwood, Martha Quinn, Mark Goodman and Alan Hunter are. Even worse!!! You still remember Pete Townshend doing those "I WANT MY MTV" Promos!

As someone who spent most of the '80s on a playground and being a literal "child", sometimes I feel bad when I realize that the requirements for being part of the Youth Culture have changed slightly and I don't really fit into them anymore. I was born in 1975, so I'm 27 years old and while I know I'm by no means an "old guy", I have been feeling kinda bad lately. I know I'm far from being old of course, but still the harsh realities of getting older have been on my mind the past couple of years. I mean in just 3 years I will be at that age where I can no longer be trusted anymore. That sucks! It seemed like for the longest time the only requirements for being a kid or a Youth was that you weren't alive for, or at least can't remember things like the Vietnam War, the Beatles, the Moon Landing, Nixon/Watergate, the Bicennetinal, Disco, etc, etc. You know, traditional Baby Boomer stuff like that. Infact I don't even think my own solid memories go beyond the very early '80s. MTV came out when I was 5 or 6 and I'm not sure if I even remember that. But these days the requirements for being a Youth have been expanded on somewhat and it seems you have to have at the very least been born under the Reagan Presidency to qualify as a real "youth",...whatever youth means ofcourse. I realize that when it comes to the '80s I'm more Goonies then Breakfast Club, but when you realize that you can cleary remember the stuff that happened 20 years ago, the world is just never the same again. Ever. The unthinkable is happening, we are now becoming the grown ups.

When the kids that were born when you were in 4th, 5th and 6th grade (and ofcourse beyond that) start driving, THAT's when you know you are getting older. When you see those kids that are that far apart in age from you starting to drive and are obviously looking physically like full grown adults, it's like WTF is happening to the world.

thinking back to my beautiful first bicycle... deep purple banana seat, silver and purple sparklie streamers haning from the handlebars, big rear view mirror, my newly "uncovered" Rice Krispies tire spoke noise maker "click, click clicking" away as I peddled down the street by myself (with no fears of being attacked or bothered) on my way to gymnastics to practice in my rainbow leotard hoping that I could one day become an Olympic Star like Nadia or Olga.... my only fear, That I wouldn't be home in time to catch "Battle of the Network Stars" or "The Muppet Show"... you never know who might be on, Leif Garrett, Eric Estrada, Tom Selleck, Tom Hanks dressed as a girl ...

You know who Mr. Miyagi is. You also know how to do the "crane technique". Remember, if do right no can defend.

Here's something to make you feel old, you realize you can still remember the code that took you directly to Mike Tyson on the NES version of "Punch Out!". 007-373-5963 will always be etched into your brain. And every kid had the same strategy, just don't let Tyson's powerful upper cuts hit you during those first few moments. If he landed any other blow you were still ok, but if you got hit by an upper cut you were dead.

A 23-year old co-worker had never heard of the song "Valley Girl" or Moon Unit Zappa!!!

You remember when Michael Jackson first did the moonwalk while singing "Billie Jean" on the Motown 25 year Special back in 1983.

Cable channels such as American Movie Classics and Turner Classic Movies play a lot of '80s films now. Hey remember when AMC and TCM only played OLD MOVIES from the '50s, '60s, and '70s? I tuned into AMC the other day expecting to see Elvis in one his bad surfer comedies, or maybey the Beatles in "A Hard Day's Night", but instead I see "Good Morning Vietnam" from 1988, and an heavy assortment of other '80s films.

I recently went to Kings Island. I can remember when The Beast first came out. I was born in 1970. I remember how much I used to love it. Now, after riding it a few times on our last time there, my back is telling me that I am,not only feeling old,but getting old.

Remember that whiny, bratty, know-it-all kid that played Wesley Crusher on Star Trek: The Next Generation? Well he's 30 years old now.

When you mention the Gulf War and when Bush Sr was President to a teen and they don't remember the war and don't remember another Bush was already in the White House before. When people call you maam. When one of your first crushes was on Simon LeBon of Duran and you finally meet him and he's an old lush. When kids born in '81 whine about feeling old already. That the Olsen twins can legally drive now and can pose for Playboy in less than two years. When kids refer to Nirvana as a classic band.

When you act respectful towards people you're sure are older adults and then find out that theyre YOUR age.

You remember thinking how much cooler the 8-bit Nintendo was over the Atari 2600 and it's box figure like characters. I even remember Atari tried to get rid of their left over stock in the mid-late '80s with a really stupid commercial that all but admitted their defeat to Nintento and Sega,---"Get Atari!, It's Under 50 bucks! It's Under 50 bucks!!"

When the teenagers that hang around outside of gas stations or convience stores ask you to go buy them cigarettes and beer. But instead of saying "Hey dude" as in they think of you as older but still a youthful peer, they call you, "Hey mister, hey mister, SIR can you buy me some..."

When you hear the teenagers of today, or anyone 21 and under really, talk about Beverly Hills 90210 (a '90s show!) like it was the Brady Bunch or something. I was talking with some people that were fans of 90210 and grew up with the show like I did, but they were all in 1st grade when it came on!

You're old enough to be a parent of a teenager. Now isn't THAT scary?!!

Nearly half of the kids born in the '80s are legal adults now. Scary isn't it? And the the worst part is, the people born in the early '80s aren't even kids anymore, they are young adults in every sense of the word. I've seen 20 year olds born in 1982 bitch about the teenagers around now, as well as complain about the music and pop culture of today. Sheesh that made me feel really old, as I was bitching about the people born in '82 just a year or two ago when THEY were still teens!

All of us Generation Xers born in the 1970s will turn 30 sometime in the '00s. Some are already there. 'Nuff said about feelin' OLD. Seems like only yesterday we were the no good punks, brats, and slackers of the world, and now we have to be the responsible adults (or at least attempt to act the part) that Generation Y looks to for leadership and guidance.

All the original atari games fit on ONE playstation 2 disc!!!

You remember that when you were growing up you had several teachers in school that were pregnant in the '80s. And then you realize with uneasiness that the babies those teachers were carrying are now driving, in high school or in college.

You remember when Magic Johnson wasn't just that old retired ball player with HIV. Remember when how they used to always have the Magic vs. Jordan debates?

I'm the only one at my work that can remember the Pet Shop Boys.

When you hear music from the early-mid 1990s like Nirvana and Pearl Jam called "old bands" by these teenagers around now, then you know all your '80s stuff is just ancient history.

You remember playing video games back in the '80s and thinking how cool it was just to be able to control what the characters on the screen were doing.

Your driving habits mellow out. For example, you notice yourself not driving as fast as you used to.

You shock yourself by saying phrases like, "Seems like only yesterday..."

If you see someone you knew back in the 80s for the first time since then, you're shocked to discover that they don't look like the same person anymore. Especially if they were little kids back then, you're twice as surprised to see how much they have changed since they've become adults themselves. Afterwards, you're asking yourself, "Where does time go?"

If you can remember clearly the heart and soul of the Eighties, which was the 1980-'87 time. Most of these kids around now at best can only remember 1989 and then of course the early '90s.

Andre Agassi and Pete Sampras are called "the old men of tennis" now. They are 32 and 31. Remember when they were both ultra hip and super cool teenage tennis stars in the '80s and early '90s? They used to look like hearthrobs hawking Nikes and Reeboks even back in 1994. Now they both look like someone's balding dad.

The computer lab at my high school upgraded all their computers to Apple IIe's from Commodore 64's back in 1982. I was in 10th grade then, and these the top of the line systems back then. They were great!! I mentioned this to my 13 year old cousin and she had NO idea what they were. She thought Apple only made the Mac and "what's a Commodore?"

That it's 2002, and I was talking about 1996's Macarena dance with a friend while we were in a mall and a 16 year old check out clerk heard our conversation and says, "Oh yeah the Macarena, whoa that was totally 5th grade". Yikes. Further proof that the '80s being treated as retro nostalgia may actually be the least of our worries.

Looking at my Duran Duran posters, magazine clippings and "records", my 10 y/o daughter. Her eyes widened, "Big CDs, but we have any CD Player that big". Of course, laughs from the "Older" relatives. The only good thing my girls love hearing my "Old" stories of concerts and fun in the Eighties.

Hearing- "Mom, what did the Berlin Wall look like?"

Have you been finding yourself walking around trying to convince yourself and others that we get a grace period and people still might be considered semi-cool up to the age 35?

Reading some of the comments posted here from a bunch of whiny 23 and 24 year olds complaining about feeling old because they can remember the '80s and they feel the heat of 30 makes ME feel like a real old timer. I gradutated high school in 1980. Yes 1980! I bet none of you whipper snappers can beat that, I'm really a '70s kid who finished high school in the '80s. I'm older then every single '80s high school graduate. For most of the '80s I was in my 20s. So when I read through these posts I can't believe that there are even several comments from 19 year olds on here saying how they feel old because some Seamse Street actor they loved back in the '80s is dead now, or something stupid like that. If you're a teenager, in your 20s, or hell if you're just anyone 35 and under, and you're sitting here wasting time complaining about feeling old, then you'll have a heart attack when you get to 50. What comes after turning 25? 26. And what comes after turning 30? 31. And what comes after turning 40? 41. And so on. Get the point? It's life, and worrying about it won't magically keep it from happening.

It was when my 9 yr old (now) started kindergarten,she was excited when I pick her up on her first day and school and had me go with her for she could show me these really big black CDs-"She said Look Mommy my teacher played these Big Black Cd's for music time" all I could was laugh,that's when I realized I know I am a 80's child-we had records and 8-tracks.

I once had to explain to some teenagers what the whole New Coke vs. Classic Coke deal was. I told them what New Coke tasted like. They were actually alive when that happened, but were way too young to remember it.

When you see 20 year olds born in 1982 act so mature and grown up, and critisize the teens around now. If people born in '82 are that adult like and no longer act like kids, all that does is remind you how old you've gotten.

When they call THE coolest music EVER ( 80's )retro. 'Retro' is something that my dad listens to. That was when I first realized that I am getting older.

I'm 25 and an undergrad in college. I had a conversation with a fellow student about something I did at a big campus party at this same college 5 years ago in 1997 when I was about 19, 20 years old. Her reply: "1997!!! OMG!! I was like only like 12 or 13 years old back then! OMG you were here in 1997!?" Sigh. As you can tell, there is no point in even discussing anything that happened in the '80s with these kids.

My cultural references are lost on the early twenties girls who work for me. I made both a "Rocky Horror" joke and an Iggy Pop reference. Blank looks. I can also sing along to a lot of the musak at work.

I no longer like to put the year of my birth in any of my internet handles or email addys.

I remember when I used to ask my parents what the '50s, '60s, and '70s were like. I now realize what an annoying brat I was treating my parents time like ancient history, because I'm sick of these kids around today asking me what the '80s were like.

When I was a kid growing up in the late 70s and early 80s, I often thought about the late 50s and the 60s--when my parents were young and before I came along. And back then, that was like 20 or 25 years ago. Today, when you think about 20 years ago, where does that put you? IN THE 80S! YIKES!!

You're shocked to realize that toddlers (2, 3, and 4-year-olds) from the 80s are now driving--and some even have their own cars!

Often times I'll find myself thinking, "That wasn't so long ago..." - then I'll realize it was 10-15 years ago! But, I think the worst was when a radio station, Sunny 99 in Houston (which is what our parents always listened to for "soft rock") played The Cure!!!!

We didnt even have the COOL atari's- I had the kind that you plugged the cartridge into the keyboard and if that wasnt enough, you had to program a game yourself...some personal fave's- Donkey Kong, Pacman, Roundup...

When all your favorite toys are suddenly appearing at stores in the retro section...strawberry shortcake, my little ponies, transformers...

when you have to use your birth year to clock in at my job, and you see some 1986's and even 1987!!!!!!!!!

I'm 26 years old, and while I know I am still young as hell, a part of me also knows that the reality is that I am getting older very quickly. This was really driven home the other day when my 60 year old father complimented me on what a good and cautious driver I became. I remember the days not too long ago when both my father and mother hated to drive with me, and hung to the side of the car doors for dear life when I was a teenage speed demon on the highway. To get complented on what a good driver you've become by your 60 year old dad makes me feel a lot of weird and bizzare things, and I'll tell you that it sure as hell doesn't make you feel young.

Think these kids born in the '80s are making you feel old? Well in just a few years (2005-2007) you'll see the kids born in 1990 and 1991 hitting the highway. I can handle kids born in the '80s, but I'm not sure if I can ever handle seeing some teenager or young adult tell me that they were born in the 1990s. That's definately going to be beyond freaking for any Child of the '80s no matter what our age. Just imagine looking at teens and young adults who were not even alive in the '80s, and who you could biologicaly be a parent of.

What Are Some Things That Happened On December 21, 1987?

Molly Ringwald is 34 years old. And those two Corey kids, Corey Haim and Corey Feldman are both like 32 and 31 years old respectively.

The "little girl" from E.T.-The Extra-Terrestrial, Drew Barrymore, is now 27 years old. The kid who played Kevin Arnold on "The Wonder Years", Fred Savage, is now 26 years old. I believe his dorky friend Paul is also 26. And get this, that nerdy Steve Urkel kid from "Family Matters", Jaleel White, is also 26 years old. Puts things into perspective seeing these former late '80s and early-mid '90s pre-teen and teen stars get so mature into adulthood don't it?

A couple of the hottest teen shows of the 1990s, "Beverly Hills 90210" and "Saved by the Bell", had their class gradutuate high school in 1993. Next year it will be a 10 year high school reunion for those kids. Whoa, if '90s high schoolers are going through 10 year reunions, then all it does is just push us former '80s teens that much further into creeping towards middle age. *sigh*

If you have fairly concrete memories of anything that happened somewhere in the 1980 to 1987 time frame, which is generally thought of as the true '80s or real '80s, then you're probably feeling the pressure of getting old and just not as young as you used to be. Lot of the teenagers and very very early 20 somethings around today say they remember the '80s but they seem to only remember the time after 1987, and then they just go ahead and write in the early 1990s as being the '80s. Everyone that was part of the genuine '80s knows that anything that happened after 1987 wasn't really the '80s. So if you have somewhat solid memoires of the real '80s, then you know you're getting old.

When people 9 or 10 years younger then you start driving. It's just too bizzare.

If you're 26 like me, and you see a lot of the people just 4 or 5 years older then you going bald and looking positively middle aged. You sit back and ponder at the bizzareness of how these same people were the ultimate in cool back in the late '80s and early '90s.

I saw a commercial for skin care saying, "you're approaching your 30s...", and then it showed a model with her age give as 27. My God, I'm 27. :( I didn't need to be reminded that I'm approaching THAT age.

When Madonna went from a skanky fringe player to an accepted part of the mainstream in the late '90s, I think all the children of the '80s knew they got older.

It seems like I'm the only one at my college that can remember when "Return of the Jedi" and "Ghostbusters" came out in 1983 and 1984.

When people talk about stuff that happened 20 years ago, and it hits you that they are no longer talking about the Baby Boomer decades like the '50s, '60s or '70s, but now they are talking about something from the early '80s.....and you realize with terror that you can actually remember what happened back then. Yes it's true, break dancing, moonwalking, Knight Rider, A-Team, and Atari was 20 damn years ago.

BETA TAPES i have airplaine and conan the barbarion as well as many others Sony intraduces the BETAmax in the 80's and JVC intraduced the vhs and i was cheaper and thats why it outsold the beta even though thats what the news media use still to this day in 2002....the quality is just that good and my friends GF is just now 21 and shes didnt even know what a beta was!!

In response to Barry: "Okay MTV experts, I'm trying to pull the name of a song out of the "gray matter" and I'm just not getting it done. Early onset senility or one too many party nights. I don't know the band or the song title, but the video, probably early 80s, dealt with old movies, "The Maltese Falcon" mainly and the video ended with a line like" Very magnanamous Mr Cairo". Nothing like next to no information, but that's all I can remember. It came out about the time Men at Work were popular but I don't think it was one of their recordings. Any help would be appreciated and I will get back on track to the "Why I like the 80s" question soon. I promise. Thanks, Barry." The song is Friends of Mr. Cairo from the album of the same title, by Vangelis and Jon Anderson (formerly of YES). Here is a link to a sampling of the song from Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000001F29/ref=ase_jonandersonon-20/104-8020402-0786347

Realizing that years that used to sound highly 'futuristic' are getting deeper and deeper into the past... 1997 was 5 years ago and even 2000 (which still conjures up images of very futuristic robots in my mind) is two years into the past!

I have a famous birthday!!! On October 19, 1987, the stock market plummeted!!! I was 5 on that day! It scares me that in a few weeks, it will be the 15th year since that happened!! I'm only gonna be 20. Jeez.

Last Thursday night, my family's friends had to go to Back to School Night for their two children (their son, Vito, is almost 5 in Pre-K, and their daughter, Vicky, is 7 in 2nd grade), so I was babysitting. We were having a snack, and Vito asks me how old I am. I said, "I'm 19, but I'll be 20 soon." Vito then asks "Is that old, Allison?" Before I could feel really old, Vicky asks "Does that mean you're an adult when you're 20, Allison?" The realization that I was no longer a kid come October 19 hit me like a ton of bricks, and these two precious kids, whom I love dearly, made me realize it!

Spaceship Earth at Epcot Center in Disney World (opened in 1982) talks of technologial advances that will be possible in the millenium. This attraction is so primitive, and the fact that it breaks down every time I have been on it doesn't exactly comfort me about what's to come in the future. You think that with all the advances they claim there will be, they could try making that attraction work a little better. Yikes.

I think everyone that grew up in the 1980s, whether as children and/or teenagers, were bound to start feeling old when 2000 came and the Millenium switched over. It's no longer the 1990s when the '80s were old but still sorta modern, and *most* people that were born in the '80s were still a bunch of under 16 year old kids, and the kids born in the early '90s were still going to day care not middle school;.....but now it's the 2000s and it was unavoidable that we would all start to feel old and bemoan getting older.

Even the 1986 movie "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" is now considered a classic.

You remember when K-Mart, Wal-Mart and Fred Myer sold only clothes, house items, toys and electronics.

I'm 24, and I hate to admit this but I was actually walking around thinking and acting like I was still some kind of "kid" or goofy teenager right up till a few months ago. It was only when I realized that people 10 years younger then me are entering high school this year in 2002, that it harshly sunk into me that I am no longer part of the youth culture. I'm still young, but knowing you are not really part of the youth culture anymore is a tough thing to accept. I thought that was going to be a part of me forever. And yes, hearing a lot of the toys and music from the '80s being called "retro" makes me feel very aged, and I wasn't even that old in the '80s. I was floored when I heard The Cure and Erasure on an oldies station.

Some of us are already planning our retirement.

When you meet people you are certain are a good 6-10 years older then you, but instead they turn out to be YOUNGER then you. No not the same age, but younger. I'm 29, and I was certain this guy in one of my tech classes was older then me and I wouldn't be the oldest one there, but he turned out to be only 20 years old. I wanted to die when he told me was only in 3rd grade when I graduated high school!

Seeing the new versions of He-Man, Transformers and other shows on Tv and thinking about how much worse they are than the ones I saw as a kid.

Believe it or not, it really makes me feel old when someone calls me "Sir". And even though I'm thirtysomething, it also makes me feel old when someone calls me a "man". I much rather prefer "guy", and even "boy" doesn't sound too childish for me, because I still feel like a teenager!

You see a lot of 80s stuff for sale in antique shops.

I can handle the '80's being treated as nostalgia, but I don't think I can EVER get used to these kids today talking about Pearl Jam like it was ancient history. When the early and mid 1990's are looked at as being ultra old skool by the current youth culture, that's when you know there's no point in kidding yourself that the '80's are still hip or fresh.

I knew I was getting old when it dawned on me that I can remember very clearly, what was going on in the world back in 1982 and that was 20 years ago. Granted I was an extremely young elementary school child back in 1982, but still, I was fully concious and can remember vividly what was happening that year. Sigh.

Knight Rider just had it's 20th Anniversary. Next year it will be 20 years for The A-Team and Punky Brewster. Well it will be 19 years for Punky, but that's enough to make anyone who grew up back then and watched these shows in their original run feel geriatric.

My favourite Saturday morning cartoons were temporarily abandoned due to Challenger blowing up. An event my peers know very little about.

Sprite Lemonade used to be called LEED lemonade until about 1990 in Australia anyway...

You incite near violence upon mentioning that George 'The Animal' Steele and the Junk Yard Dog would tear apart the likes of The Rock and Triple H. Oh and in those days (did I just say that?) the wrestlers never had to give the fans any phoney attitude, we respected out of sheer terror..

Whenever I hear about shootings at schools, I am reminded of the fist fights that broke out in my high school in the 80s. I never saw anyone with a gun, even though our school had one of the worst records of bad behavior in the state.

I bet the vast majority people in the United States armed forces don't remember the '80's very well, or in some cases, not at all. Think about that, the bulk of the people defending your country can barely remember the '80's, if it all. I mean if most of the MEN and WOMEN in the military are born in the '80's and in that 18-22 range, then while they were around back then, they are likely not to remember most of the stuff that happened in the decade save for maybey a few cartoons. Not a thought that would make most of us feel like spring chickens that's for sure. Infact just typing all that made me feel awful. I think I need a drink.

I still remember being a kid back in the late '80's and how futuristic the year 1991 used to sound to me. Hell the whole 1990's used to sound very futuristic, it was the near future like in the movie "Robocop". But now the '90's are all the old school past, and the '80's are being treated as retro fun in the same way the '60's and '70's were for so many years.

Being a child and was taken to go see ET in theater's and then now when the re-release came out I was taking my younger daughter to go see it.

I always feel OLD when I see the former teenagers of the '80's, who are now in their 30's, insisting on practicing "clique maintenance", which is putting down the kids of the late '90's and present, as well as putting down the overall world of the late '90's and present, just to make their own little clique feel better. Yeah, you guys in your 30's just keep fooling yourselves and keep pretending like you didn't act as stupid as these kids do now. Those of us who are still in our 20's now and were children back in the '80's remember very clearly how the teenagers and early 20 somethings of the '80's acted. I had older brothers and sisters, and I remember how freaking wild and crazy the teenagers and young adults of the Eighties were. I hate to say this but you guys were probably 10 times worse then these kids today. But I know you'll never admit it.

Proof that we're all getting a little bit older...a VERY familiar face of the 1980s, Chevy Chase, who did the two greatest "Vacation" movies in the 1980s (the original and Christmas, European was ok), not to mention the stint @ Betty Ford, turned 59 today. Yikes, this makes me feel old. I grew up watching Chevy Chase in the 1980s!

The Dust On My Tape Collection, My Slap And Bangle Bracelets...along With My Pink Huffy Bike Remind Me That Those Days Are Really Gone. And They've Been Gone For A Long Time. Our Generation Remembers How Scary The 'gremlins' Were, We Remember When The Incredible Hulk, Spider-man And Wonder Woman Were Real T.v. Shows With Real People. We Remember The Facts Of Life, 'v' And Knightrider. Magnum P.i. And The Dukes Of Hazard. We Remember When High-waters Were Cool, And The More Neon, The Better. It's Strange...i Was Walking Through The Mall Last Summer And I Saw A Young Girl With A "made In The 80's" Shirt On. And I Think That's When It Really Hit Me...i Was Born In The 70's. We Said The 'pledge Of Allegiance' Every Morning Before We Started School. I Know The Words To The National Anthem. I Loved 'tears For Fears' And I Thought Michael Jackson Was Cool. Make Up Was Tinkerbell With The Peel Off Nail Polish. I Just Don't Know Where The Time Went?? (and I Don't Mean Morris Day)

Ever since the year 2000 finally came, I've realized that the people in their 30's are looking younger and younger to me every year. Infact I know this has definately been true for all of us that spent our childhood back in the 1980's.

You guys think it's so bad that these kids can't remember the 1980's? Get real, try talking about the first half of the 1990's with these people. Hey NEWS FLASH to everyone here: To the undergrad kids I go to college with, anything that happened before 1997 is nothing but elementary and middle school nostalgia. I embarrasingly gave my age away one day in an economics class when I started talking about what I was doing in 1993 and didn't mention anything about being in an elementary class room or being out on a play ground playing with Power Rangers.

Ok - I must admit, this is the year that made me feel old. After looking at several magazines and realizing that certain fashion statements were making a comeback I got a little freaked out. Remember when we had jean jackets and purses (made of jean) and we had buttons (pins) all over them? I can remember Duran Duran, Culture Club, Michael Jackson, all sorts of them! I even had a necklace that was about 1 inch long and shaped like a glove with rhinestones in it! I guess the kicker is the E.T. re- release. I have the ORIGINAL album soundtrack (yes the record)in a box set with a pull out "poster" of Michael Jackson and E.T. And yes, I took my 5 year old to see it in the theater this year and cried like a baby the whole time!

Ralph Macchio, who played teenager Daniel LaRusso in "The Karate Kid", is now 41 years old. Michael J. Fox, also known as teenager Marty McFly and teenager Alex P. Keaton, is himself 41 years old. I grew up with Ralph and Mike as Daniel and Marty/Alex back in the 1980's, so it's very hard for me to believe that these two actors are now a couple of middle aged men.

It finally makes PERFECT SENSE to me why insurance companies are hard on us guys until we hit the age of 24. I used to always wonder why they picked 24 and not 21, 22 or 23. When I turned 24 I realized I was a mortal man and not some immortal demi-God like I thought I was before, and thus started driving a little more carefully and not as reckless as before. When you turn 24 and go into your mid 20's it hits you like a ton of bricks that 30 is only 5 or 6 years away. I mean I went from 18 to 24 in 6 years and that went by VERY FAST. So I'm really scared now, but age 24---yeah, that finally makes sense to me why the insurance people pick that age. I think 24 is the age everyone realizes, male or female, that they we are mortal beings that do GET OLD.

You saw the "Simpsons Christmas Special:Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire" in when it first aired December 1989, and you've seen the reruns many times since.

You can clearly remember when the "Simpsons" was really corny looking and sounding--especially Homer's voice. The animation was primitive, but now it looks and sounds much better--and its gotten funnier too! Not that it never was...

My age group was 6 and 7 years old in December 1989 when the pilot episode of "The Simpsons" premired on FOX. Now, we're all 19 and some are almost 20, and we're still "Simpsons" fans! It proves that it stands the test of time.

You can remember when the most controversial program on television was "The Simpsons," yet you can't remember anything from the 90s.

You remember when FOX was a fledgling network, and how shows like "The Simpsons," "In Living Color," and Married with Children" saved the network. Now, the fledgling network is UPN, and we all know the only thing holding them up is "Enterprise," which I won't even begin to watch.

You saw the pilot for "The Wonder Years" in 1988 and you've seen it again in syndication (it now airs on ABC Family) in recent times.

You realize that they don't make many "family values" sitcoms like "Family Ties" and "Cosby," or nostalgic dramas like "The Wonder Years" like they used to.

You remember when Kevin Arnold first kissed Winnie Cooper on "The Wonder Years."

Watching the kids you used to babysit for graduate from high school.... having someone ask you "Who's Richard Dreyfuss?"... telling people about the ban on slap bracelets... Cabbage Patch kids costing an arm and a leg to buy and their horses (which is still in my parents' attic) which now cost next to nothing.... jelly shoes... watching Cheers and The Cosby Show on TV Land... my mother refusing to get our Atari fixed, hence never getting any other sort of game system.... remembering the ORIGINAL Goonies with the octopus already in the film without having to go buy the DVD... watching the He-Man & She-Ra Christmas Special... telling kids that Power Rangers were a rip off of Voltron... being the only person in a room of over 100 who knew the theme song from Dallas... singing Def Leppard's Pour Some Sugar On Me in the back of the bus on the way to/from school.... having kids tell me they were born after 1990.... watching Knight Ride & The A-Team every Saturday afternoon as a family tradition.... being the only person who cheered when someone announced they had attended a Styx/REO Speedwagon concert... having someone next to me think that the MacGuyver theme was the theme from ER... seeing a very small selection of cassette tapes in the music stores... hearing "Who's Downtown Julie Brown?", "Remote Control...isn't that a part for your TV?"... watching The West Wing thinking that's the bad boyfriend from Adventures in Babysitting!

If you mention "The Transformers" to the kids around today, they only know about that stupid Beast Wars cartoon. Hardly any of these kids know of the Generation 1 series from the '80's. Beast Wars sucks anyway. Who wants to see Optimus Prime turn into some kind of ape? And Megatron transforms into a rat? Please.

When the children and young teens of today think "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" was strictly a '90's cartoon, but you remember watching the show when it first started in the '80's.

I don't think I'll ever get used to stuff like New Kids on the Block, Debbie Gibson, Paula Abdul, Bon Jovi, and Milli Vanilli being called "retro". I remember all that when it happened the first time around. Well maybey I can handle it happening to Milli Vanilli, those guys were a joke.

The '80's? A lot of kids today treat the '90's, yes even the late '90's, as being really really old school.

The Class of 1992 just had our 10 year high school reunion. I'm still not used to being this old. Yeah I know, by the time I get used to it, I'll be even older.

I'll tell you what makes me feel old---When I was in junior high in the late '80's, I remember very clearly teachers lecturing us on how things in the world were so much better back in the '50's and '60's and how back in those days children were safe to go out and play and they didn't have to lock their doors at night or anything like that. They'd also insist on telling us how well mannered and respectful kids were to the adults of the time. Most of the teachers and parents would talk about how awful things were in the then present of 1988, 1989 how rotten us kids were and how the '80's were all glitzy MTV style and so little substance. To them we were the worst kids that ever walked God's green Earth. And for them the '60's had music that meant something and lyrics that were about something while the '80's were a soulless corporate abomination. Since none of us 12, 13 year old 7th graders in 1989 were around in the '50's, '60's or even much of the '70's, we couldn't disprove any of the adults utopia nonsense and took their word that it was really that perfect and holy back in those days. Fast forward to 2002, well these days you see a lot of us that were growing up back in the 1980's (especially the slightly older crowd that actually graduated high school sometime in the Eighties) say the EXACT SAME stuff, except instead of the '60's, people talk about how great it all was in the '80's and how terrible the world is in the '90's and 2000's. I got to tell all of you, I never thought anyone around my age or of my generation would spout out that same utopia B.S., and things like that make me feel like a real old timer. Who would have thought that Generation Xers would start acting just like our Baby Boomer parents?

I just saw 1989's "Batman" with Michael Keaton on the American Movie Classics channel. Jeez louise I remember seeing that movie when it came out in the theater for the first time in the Eighties.

Nick at Nite is already airing one series from the 1990's. It's "Coach". And you thought it was bad seeing '80's shows on Nick at Nite.

This one doesn't have to do directly with the Eighties, but it will make anyone who grew up in the '80s and/or '90's feel VERY old. Be warned that you will feel beyond old after you hear this story. This year in 2002 my younger cousins graduated high school and I was at their graduation party and made a comment about a 2001 Weird Al Yankovic song that mentioned singer Eddie Vedder. Everyone one these kids, every one of them, asked me who Eddie Vedder was. Seriously. Anyway after I explained to them that Vedder was the lead singer of the 1990's grunge band Pearl Jam, (like that was such a long time ago or something!) one of them said, "Oh yeah I heard about those guys". I couldn't believe it. I just could not believe it. I'd more then perfectly understand if these kids didn't know Eighties icons like Eddie Van Halen, Bon Jovi, Axel Rose and/or groups like Guns N' Roses,...but not knowing Eddie Veddder and Pearl Jam? We are talking about the '90's here, and these kids of the class of 2002 had no idea who Eddie Vedder was and only the vaguest notion of Pearl Jam. I had to remind myself that they were in elementary school still learning to read and write during Pearl Jam's heyday in the early-mid '90's, and perhaps the Power Rangers held more appeal to these kids then whatever was being played on the radio. Puts things into perspective about how old us Generation Xers have gotten doesn't it? It's official, we Xers are NOT in control of the youth culture anymore.

There are kids in junior high (ok ok MIDDLE SCHOOL!) now that weren't even ALIVE during the 1980's. Yes the 6th, 7th, and I think 8th graders of today were born in the '90's. I was born in the '70's and I know what I used to think of the '60's. Chew on that thought.

i remember when all i wanted for Xams was flourescent slouch slocks and too watch thundercats all day whilst drooling over jason Donovan. And i was sooo cool when i got my Atari with 2 yes 2 joysticks and PONG!

I've been watching "America's Funniest Home Videos" since the late '80s. Sad thing is, I still remember the Bob Saget era too well.

You know you're feeling old when you think the older male actors of the 1980s are looking good to you. Case in point, I'm almost 20 and I think Tom Selleck during "Magnum PI" is good-looking, and he's in his late 50s!

I remember when EVERYONE and their kid sister had a "Baby On Board" sign in their window. My mom even had the "Twins on Board" sign. Now, every time I see a bumper sticker that says "DRIVE CAREFULLY...THIS IS MY MOMMY (DADDY/GRANDMA/GRANDPA)!", I have nostalgia moments.

I just saw "Scooby-Doo" this weekend (rent it if you haven't seen it--it's a GREAT movie!!)when 2 weird thoughts occured to me when I saw this. 1)The actors in the movie (Freddie Prinze Jr., Sarah Michelle Gellar, Matthew Lillard, and Linda Cardellini) were only kids in the 1980s, when Scooby-Doo cartoons in reruns were popular. 2)I remembered that dumb "A Pup Named Scooby Doo" cartoon from 1988 that was really unwatchable, and did no justice to the original series.

I think it's definately true