Previous decades herein being the 80s? Certainly by the early 00s most of my then-teenage circles had IDs sufficiently plausible to get past bouncers into bars

Previous decades herein being the 80s? Certainly by the early 00s most of my then-teenage circles had IDs sufficiently plausible to get past bouncers into bars. Arguably anti-fraud has improved since then with holographic threads, stuff that reflects certain wavelengths of light etc. But also all that is still limited by the bouncer weighing have to get the stuff out to check it versus feeling it's good enough they won't get in trouble for letting someone underage in