34 Old-School Memes For 80s Kids That Refuse to Grow Up

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John Summers • Contributor
Jul 1, 2024 10:00 PM EDT

I miss the '80s! And it's not just because I was a carefree child, riding my bike around the neighborhood with my friends, looking for treasure (we might have been a bit influenced by "The Goonies"). Sure, being a child was a lot more fun than being an adult, but it's not just that. Take, for example, the year 1984, exactly 40 years ago; Do you realize how many awesome movies came out in that year alone?! 

We're talking Ghostbusters, Gremlins, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, The Karate Kid, Footloose, Beverly Hills Cop, The NeverEnding Story, The Terminator, Dune (the original one), The Muppets Take Manhattan, Splash, Sixteen Candles, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Police Academy, AND The Ewok Adventure! (Okay, that last one was bad.) All of that in one year! What has 2024 given us so far? Inside Out 2 and Dune 2? Not even close!

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  • 01
    SE 1980: "In 2024 we will have flying cars!" 2024: DO NOT EAT THIS WRAPPER CRISPY MAS
    via @IL0VEthe80s
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    commodore 1541 Ccommodare ME ad
    via @IL0VEthe80s
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    Shoutout to everyone old enough to remember slapping the telly to make it work again. RELAND Geec
    via @IL0VEthe80s
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    Weird ALFO
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    3054 0200036
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    SANYO
    via @IL0VEthe80s
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    I DON'T ALWAYS LISTEN TO CHEESY 80'S MUSIC BUT WHEN I DO I WOULD WALK 500 MILES TO BLESS THE RAINS DOWN IN AFRICA IN ORDER TO CATCH 99 LUFTBALLONS UP TO BRUSSELS TO EAT A VEGEMITE SANDWICH
    via @IL0VEthe80s
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    My friend: You can't recognize someone just by their foot. Me:
    via @IL0VEthe80s
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    000
    via @IL0VEthe80s
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    Coo Gen-Xers: We were built different.
    via @IL0VEthe80s
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    Cheezburger Image 10367177216
    via @IL0VEthe80s
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    TRC-473 ERS PA ANL CHO MON 19 OUT CB OUT OFF UME CH 1 CHB MOD A REALISTIC
    via @IL0VEthe80s
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    If you remember these, you're old ECK HERE FOR ENE CANCEL stock checker
    via @IL0VEthe80s
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    Lucoza ACES LOST ENERG
    via @IL0VEthe80s
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    Squint

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    via @IL0VEthe80s
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    IF YOU KNOW WHO THIS IS YOU HAD A NAUGHTY CHILDHOOD
    via @IL0VEthe80s
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    AATAR O RECA
    via @il0venostalgia
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    Utgang 20 There is a generation of kids that have no idea what this is.
    via @il0venostalgia
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    Cheezburger Image 10367180544
    via @il0venostalgia
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    The brownies I started baking in my Easy-Bake Oven in 1979 are ready if you guys want one. KENNER EASY-BAKE OVEN
    via @il0venostalgia
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    are you this old WATERFUL RING TOSS
    via @il0venostalgia
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    DOES THIS BRING BACK MEMORIES?
    via @il0venostalgia
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    Today's generation has no idea who lived here
    via @il0venostalgia
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    Cheezburger Image 10367182080
    via @il0venostalgia
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    1327 CHEF LITTLE CHEF LITTLE Ame Well CHEF UTLE appu 1110 bie pancak LITTLE CHEF tal CHEF LITTLE LITTLE CHEF LE EF
    via @80s_Kidz
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    PANINI'S FOOTBALL 84 10p. FIGURINE PANINI
    via @80s_Kidz
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    Big bubbles No troubles Hubba Bubba SOFT BUBBLE GUM Strawberry vor SOFT BUBBLE GUM Apple Flavor Big bubbles No troubles Big bubbles No troubles Hubba Bubba SOFT BUBBLE GUM Cola Flavor NEW SOFT BUBBLE GUM Lemon Flavor Big bubbles No troubles Hubba Bubba SOFT riginal Flav GUM Big bubbles No troubles Hubba Bubba SOFT BUBBLE GUM Drange Favor Big bubbles No troubles Hubba Bubba SOFT Big bubbles No troubles Salty Licorice Feve Minnebok fra 80-tallet
    via @80s_Kidz
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    RIGHT FIRE a GRANDSTAND SCRAMBLE TOMYTRONIC 3D CONTROLT 80S KIDZ STATION SSE FUDDER LEVEL RESET GALAXY INVADER 1000 Created with latermark SCOR 600 lamy CAVEMAN F alamy CRAYOT a MERLIN TOIM
    via @80s_Kidz
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    ELECTRONIC GAME MATTEL ELECTRONICS™ INVADER FROM SPACE DRACULA MELECY ST SC K OFF PRO 2 GRANDSTAND.SUECTRONIC CAME GRANDSTAND FIREFOX F-7 Created with watermark FOOTBALL ASTRO FIRE POWER OF LEVEL START WARS 80S KIDZ GRANDSTAND
    via @80s_Kidz
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    STURMEY 3
    via @80s_Kidz
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    HEINZ HAUNTED &HOUSE SPAGHETTI SHAPES TOMATO SAUCE HEINZ HAUNTED HOUSE SPAGHETTI SHAPES TOMATO SAUCE & 8654
    via @80s_Kidz
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    Me in the 80s "these graphics look so real" the graphics: @thenespage
    via @80s_Kidz
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    259 PORTION-PAR FREE SAMPLE Kellogg's START ENRICHED MULTI-GRAIN CEREAL WITH GLUCOSE
    via @80s_Kidz
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    Gen Y Old computer games couldn't be won. They just got harder and faster until you died. Just like reallife.
    via @80s_Kidz

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1990s 90s memes retro nostalgia 80s music Nostalgia Overload 80s 90s kids 90s memory lane nostalgia memes millennial-nostalgia 1980s
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