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.
13. Comic Relief
Comic Relief arrived on the scene in the 1980s, in the wake of Band Aid. Dore School pupils show that they are in the mood for laughs as they all line up in fancy dress for Comic Relief in 1988. | Sheffield Newspapers Photo: Sheffield Newspapers
14. School DJs
Pupils run a radio station at Roe Wood School, Sheffield, in May 1989. Pictured left to right are DJs Lyndsay Cann and Gavin Roberts (both 11) with Keven Smith, Gary Smith and Gaynor Rodgers | Sheffield Newspapers Photo: Sheffield Newspapers
15. Children in Need
Children in Need also made its first appearance in the 1980s. Pupils at Woodthorpe First and Middle School, Sheffield, at work making and decorating Pudsey biscuits with the help of the canteen staff in aid of the 1989 Children in Need Appeal Photo: Sheffield Newspapers
16. Bertie Bassett
Bertie Bassett was a popular character among youngsters Here he meets youngsters at Sheffield Central Children's Library in September 1986 | Picture Sheffield Photo: Picture Sheffield