50 Things Only People Who Lived in the 1980s Will Remember

BestLife ^ | 5/14/19 | Bob Larkin

[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.

[doorgunner69]

That is not funny, considering the apple drones of today and their devotion to an inviolable thing.

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

the worst thing was the Challenger disaster

I was in our corporate word processing center (before we all had PCs we had a central word processing center with ladies who would do your typing for you), picking up some documents, when I found out about the Challenger. The ladies there had a TV on.

[FamiliarFace]

I worked in Dallas at the time, at the UT Health Science Center back then. One of the labs across the hall belonged to an astronaut. He was scheduled to go up on the Challenger, but got yanked the week or two before when they put Christa McAuliffe on instead. We were all so mad that they pulled him, but watched the launch anyway. And then…we were all shaking in our boots when it exploded. He was supposed to be on that flight. Thank God he wasn’t!

He did eventually go up into space. I think ‘94 or ‘95.