Favourite Stuff From The 1980s

Jan 2, 2020 4:55:52 GMT clusium said:

Since a topic has been made about the 90s, I decided to do one about the 80s as well.

Although TECHNICALLY and CHRONOLOGICALLY it FIRST came out in 1979 in Japan.

gameboy



Yeah, but I think one could pretty much make that claim about the 1990's to (obviously not as much but close enough) as given my observations I would say that general computers/internet never really went more mainstream til about 1998-2000 (or if one is going to say when the internet(and computers) was really mainstream, by a decade basis... it's definitely the 2000's as the 1990's was still more of the pre-modern tech era (although one could argue the 1990's had it to some degree but it was at the end area of it)).

for example... high speed internet was not available in my area til the year 2000 as when I got mine installed the person who installed it said I was one of the earlier people to get it etc. so that should be a rough estimate of things even though I realize those who live in cities/big cities might have gotten it a bit earlier but this should get the gist of it across with the 1998-2000 estimate as I got to be pretty close if not exact.

hell, I would pretty much say that was about the same time frame for general cell phones to as while people did have cell phones pre-2000's it was not much before that for the more common person which is why I just tend to say the 2000's was more of the more legitimate cell phone/computer/internet era. sort of like... post-2000 = modern tech. pre-2000 = more of the old days if your splitting things on a decade-to-decade basis.

p.s. I was alive in all of the 1980's but I was pretty much single digits (age wise) for nearly all of it. so I don't really claim much about the 1980's as I was basically too young to remember it really well but the 1990's I can basically since I was a teenager for most of it til the end of the decade.



Yeah, I sort of miss the old days a bit in this regard. like modern tech is great in many ways, since information is at our fingertips nice and easy, but at the same time many of us spend too much time on it as I think many of us have technology addiction to some degree

but as far as that stuff goes... my best guesstimate is that crap has probably been going about 10 years or so now(?) because I think 2007 was the first smart phone and it would have taken a while after that before things were saturated into the masses.

p.s. personally I could not stand looking at a smart phone for hours as they are a pain in the ass to use vs a desktop computer as desktop computers are just quicker/easier to do stuff on and you get a much larger screen to look at. typing on a smart phone is a chore vs a keyboard.

The golden age of indie-pop

The Poltergeist films.

See my post above....

These actresses when they were in their prime.

Kelly Preston
Jami Gertz
Markie Post
Mia Sara
Linda Fiorentino
Kim Basinger
Daryl Hannah
Tanya Roberts
Linda Hamilton
Melanie Griffith
Lynda Carter
Ione Skye
Patricia Arquette
Suzanne Somers
Jennifer Tilly

Aliens
the NeverEnding Story
the Working Girl
Ghostbusters

The Rubik's Cube.

I could never figure the whole thing out. I could get one side, but that was about it.

The one babysitter we employed used to figure it out every single time. When we got up in the morning, there it was - solved. We still think she took the stickers off, and peeled them back on.

The music.

For me, it was at a time where music wasn't defined by genres.  I mean, watching MuchMusic (at the time), I would watch videos by Run DMC, Ratt, Culture Club....and to me, it was just....music.

I have a good chunk of 80s tunes on my iPod.  So, those tunes will stick forever with me.

I....am good with that. 

Joker's Wilde