Posted on 09/06/2025 7:23:02 AM PDT by DallasBiff
Nostalgia for the 1980s is so rampant that even people who weren’t alive during the glorious decade like to celebrate it as if they were. Teens today will even put on tracksuits and Kangol hats and boogie out to the likes of LL Cool J. However, those of us who witnessed the ’80s firsthand aren’t just sentimental for that bygone era. All those cultural cliches that people try to emulate? Yeah, it’s in our DNA. We are the ’80s and the ’80s are us. Keep reading to discover 50 things that any true child of the ’80s won’t just remember, but probably still thinks about on a regular basis. You can take the kid out of the ’80s, but the ’80s will always persevere.
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Missed most of it, happily.
At university, students would advertise their unused airline tickets on a cork bulletin-board in the student center.
You’d buy the paper ticket for cash (what else was there?) and use it because even if it had a name on it, it was never checked by the airline and there was no such thing as TSA.
“punk rock” was largely dead in the ‘80s. New Wave had pretty much taken over that segment. Heavy Metal was still expanding.
Lotus 1-2-3 was ‘80s.
Lotus Notes really starts in the 1990s.
Why is the right half of my screen blocked when looking at this ???
Why is the right half of my screen blocked when looking at this ???
Water cooler discussions at work the day after a popular show televised on broadcast TV the night before. Soon, some people started recording TV shows, so those discussions faded due to spoilers. It wasn’t long before a majority of people didn’t watch the show the night before. Fast-forward to the present, and there really isn’t much to talk about with regards to prime time broadcast TV. Ever.
We got our first naval war of the missile age: the Falklands.
Me as well...
Motorcycles,Chicks and Beer.
Lucky I survived.
Anything TV related I didn’t see or care about. The late 80s was college. What I consider great; western nations defeating the Soviets. Western nations didn’t hate themselves and weren’t actively committing cultural suicide. No dating apps, no social media, no cell phones, and no internet demanded very good and useful social skills. Especially learning how to navigate the dating world and society in general. And probably the biggest for me was the political awakening when the commies went in to the democrats media academic “green” complex and what a rotten disgusting political party the democrats represent. Everything was going to kill us and destroy the world and the only solution was to surrender to the democrats.
Berlin wall getting torn down ...
The online service “Prodigy”. (Where FR got its start.)
17 Using Dawn to Clean Birds During the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
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Which also removed the birds’ natural oils, condemning them to death.
Indeed nobody sees plaform shoes in yard sales proof style gets sisk some times.
I forget the word processor, before “Word”, for PCs.
I used it a lot during MBA grad school in the PC lab that had 20+ PCs for students.
Lots of Harvard Business School cases to analyze & write...and so many other courses.
At one time I borrowed an Epson (IIRC) “laptop” - it was the size and weight of a small suitcase.
BETA is better than VHS...
End of story... Not really
1950s...lots of good music.
1960s...by far the best decade for music
1970s...bad decade for music
1980s...a pretty good decade for music
“Motorcycles,Chicks and Beer. Lucky I survived.”
Same here.
I didn’t wear a fanny pack in the 80s but I do now. It’s a dorky jansport that conceals my S&W 40.
My youngest cousin would watch “New Wave Theater with Peter Ivers” on Friday nights on USA network.
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