Ah, 1989. It’s not just an iconic Taylor Swift album, but one of the greatest years on record, according to many who lived threough it. Not everything was great, of course. There was the tragic violence in Tiananmen Square. But there was also the dismantling of the Berlin Wall. Tim Burton’s Batman was the top film at the box office, while Seinfeld and The Simpsons took television by storm.

Yes, the eighties were epic. The jeans were pegged, the shoulders were padded and the hair was feathered and huge. It was 1989—the peak of Gen X youth coming of age. And nowhere is there better proof of that specific moment in time than a recent viral video of a group of high school students sitting at their desks in 1989.

Undoubtedly filmed by some geeky kid in the AV club who probably went on to found an internet startup, the clip has gone viral across social media, tapping straight into Gen X’s memory banks. For those of us who were in high school at the time, it’s like hopping into a time machine.

It’s so wild to think that the kids in this video are in their fifties today. The show “Stranger Things” has given young folks of today a pretty good glimpse of that era, but if you want to see exactly what the late ’80s looked like for real, here it is:

High school students, 1989. pic.twitter.com/p3Trb4lT3Z— A SLICE OF HISTORY (@asIiceofhistory) August 7, 2022

High school students, 1989. pic.twitter.com/p3Trb4lT3Z— A SLICE OF HISTORY (@asIiceofhistory) August 7, 2022

Oh so many........

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