[Nowhere Man]

I'm one of those dinosaurs who can't get over the 80s. Yeah, my teen years left a lot to be desired, BUT, the music was awesome and how can you go wrong with 8 years of Reagan? There seemed to be a lot more optimism then, but maybe I'm just a little biased.

Then the 90s came along, with its cynicism and irony and everything just seemed to go all to suck, you know?

I know what you mean, I was born in 1966 so I'll be 39 this year. I was a teenager and young adult back then. It was a cool time although I had my rough times too. My favorite part of that era besides the music was the computers, we used to spend endless hours on our Commodore 64's, TRS-80's, Apple //e's and ][+'s, and games all the time on our Ataris. I remember when I was a junior, we had the "Mother of all School Strikes" so we basically programs games into the computer and played Atari until our retinas became bleached. B-) Ah yes, we had many a late night role playing game session too.

The 1980's were an optimistic time, with Ronald Reagan, how can we go wrong? I think things started to crack after Reagan left office and completely blew chunks by the time Clinton got into office. Today with the Republicans and Bush in office, I got some optimism back but I feel a bit schizoid because the optimism wasn't as intense as it was then. It was an interesting time indeed.

[Army Air Corps]

"The 1980's were an optimistic time, with Ronald Reagan, how can we go wrong?"

Amen! Viva la Reagan Revolution!

[RepoGirl]

I was the ONE kid who didn't have a TRS 80 or a Commodore! Or an Atari even!

I DO remember, though, the big business computer my father bought for his typography business. It was called, I believe, an Alpha Micro and it had removeable hard drives that looked like these giant, blue bundt cake pans.

The 90s was just spent fine tuning the ideas that the 80s came up with--pretty dull. The 80s were a great party, the 90s were the next door neighbors calling the cops.

Sigh...