80 Minutes Of TV Commercials From The 1980s And 1990s

You might remember "TV commercials" if you're from a particular age group. These were brief, unskippable commercials that aired between shows on a boxy gadget known as television.

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Younger audiences may be acquainted with a similar approach via YouTube, where there is frequently a "skip" button. We used to skip advertisements by fading out, grabbing a drink, or rushing to the restroom.

TV ads throughout the 1980s and early 1990s explored a depth of cheesy craziness that would not have been replicated by any other era. 

It was the age of mail-ordered music anthologies (tape, LP, and possibly CD), geeky truck advertisements, Doublemint gum commercials with twins, adverts for delivering newspapers (how idyllic! ), including several Radio Shack campaigns.

To commemorate YouTube's magic, here have been 80 minutes of advertising from the 1980s and early 1990s. 

Check out some of these old adverts and let the nostalgia hit you right in the place!