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.
25. Sheaf Valley baths
Sheaf Valley Swimming Baths was the place to go for swimming in 1980s Sheffield, a modern pool with its own diving pool. Here is is photographed by The Star in August 1985. Photo: Sheffield Newspapers Ltd | Sheffield Newspapers Photo: Sheffield Newspapers