Many, many people shared it because it really felt nostalgic and was such a throwback.
However, I immediately called BS because A.)
Making mix CDs in 1999 was not really a thing B.)
So, where am I going with this?
“Anything we wore that wasn’t neon.
Pop culture acts like the ’80s were just a sea of nothing but neon for 10 years.”
“The wild amounts of smoking inside.
Especially in restaurants.”
People would often openly stare, laugh at, or disparage people who looked openly unique.
It took a lot of courage to go out styled like that.
It was acceptable to have a more ‘subtle’ take on the fun color trends."
“Reading everything literally everything I could get my hands on.
Cereal boxes, newspapers, magazines.
Luckily, my library was a bike ride away but carrying those back on my bike was fun.”
“How much decor from the ’70s and ’60s were still in houses and offices throughout the decade.”
“This isnt specific to the ’80s, but the experience of boredom.
“TV was just adult shows for most of the week, especially during summer break.
Just soap operas and other boring things.”
Not that bullying and conformism ever went away, but the ’90s was more about counter-culture a bit.”
“I was born in the early ’80s.
I’ve been totally blind since birth.
In the ’80s, accessibility was virtually non-existent.
That new Nintendo that the kids had?
Not in braille or audio.
Everything is in print.
Nothing to see here for me or mine.
Then computers finally got accessible and Windows came out and they had to start all over again.
I wouldn’t want to go back to the ’80s.
“The sheer sense of doom and pervasive low-key terror of nuclear war.
Living with an existential threat is not something new.”
11.The cheap gas in the late ’80s.
I pumped in $2 and had a quarter tank.”
“The homophobia.”
“The devastation of AIDS.
We lost three guys just at my office.
So many great creative minds were disappearing day after day.
Artists, fashion designers, musicians, dancers, and actors.
“Being a latchkey kid it was no frequent communication with your parents.
My parents didn’t know what I was doing all day as a 1217-year-old, either!
You only called your parents at work only if it was an emergency.”
“Cars finally started not to suck.
Lots of higher quality foreign imports and less Detroit rust buckets.”
17.“Cruising.
Before social media, we would drive up and down the street, see and be seen.
But it was a small town so we would stop at all of them during the evening.
“What a mess it was to get cleaned up!
That sparkle-blue eye shadow didn’t come off easily and if it got in your eyes it was torture!
That red lip gloss ran all over.
And shampooing your hair three times to get out all the hair spray and the mousse.
I loved the ’80s and I had a marvelous time.
But it was messy… but way worth it!”
19.And lastly, “Trying to find something to read in the bathroom to pass the time.
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