And the world in which Sheffield’s youngsters grew up was very different to that in which teens are making their way now.
With the internet just starting out then, the only screen time you’d really get back in the 80s was watching the television, or if you were lucky, playing a TV game or a game on a computer like a ZX81.
If you wanted to read something, you’d have to have a book, and you had to buy your music from a shop, not stream it.
But Sheffield city centre was packed with shops, so you could buy all the latest fashions, be that a rah rah skirt or a leather tie!
We’ve taken a look back at what Sheffield was like back in the 80s, and put together a gallery showing what it was like to grow up here in that decade.
Some of this, you’re bound to recognise.
Take a look at the 25 pictures and see what memories they bring back.
5. Classroom
There was no interactive white board in his picture lessons in a classroom at Yewlands School, Grenoside, in 1981 Photo: Sheffield Newspapers
6. The fair
Fairs were a popular place to go. The picture show a fairground off Manor Oaks Road, in April 1985. Photo: Newspapers Ltd, Picture Sheffield | Newspapers Ltd, Picture Sheffield Photo: Newspapers Ltd, Picture Sheffield
7. Charles and Di street party
1981 brought street parties around the city for the welling of the then Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer. This picture shows a party in Sheffield on July 29, 1981. Photo: Sheffield Newspapers / Picture Sheffield | Sheffield Newspapers / Picture Sheffield Photo: Sheffield Newspapers Ltd / Picture Sheffield
8. Dancing round the maypole
Children of Hucklow First School, Firth Park, dance around the maypole before an audience of parents in the school yard in May 1983 Photo: Sheffield Newspapers