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The two things that I immediately think of when somebody mentions the 1980s are:

1) The computer game called Exile (BBC Superior), released in 1988.

2) Charlotte Church, who in 1982 at age twelve introduced her first album titled 'Voice of an Angel'.*







*I think it was 1982 and 1988. I lived in Ireland until 2001, and so I am not exactly sure of events that happened in the UK before that.

Great bands like The Police and Talking Heads.

Cheesy eighties anti-drug adds.

And the Goonies.

Investment banking...those were the days.

Investment banking...those were the days.

Do you channel steve forbes or something?

Anyway, I recall bad fashion and glue sniffing.

On the plus side, I did learn how to steal cars in the 1980s.

The two things that I immediately think of when somebody mentions the 1980s are:

1) The computer game called Exile (BBC Superior), released in 1988.

2) Charlotte Church, who in 1982 at age twelve introduced her first album titled 'Voice of an Angel'.*

You know she's only like....20 or something.




Anyway, the '80s....well, there was that whole being born thing.

The two things that I immediately think of when somebody mentions the 1980s are:

1) The computer game called Exile (BBC Superior), released in 1988.

2) Charlotte Church, who in 1982 at age twelve introduced her first album titled 'Voice of an Angel'.*

*I think it was 1982 and 1988. I lived in Ireland until 2001, and so I am not exactly sure of events that happened in the UK before that.

I think of the Back to The Future movies. I aslo think of Def Leppard, and occasionally, Van Halen.

Ronald Fucking Reagan
Air Supply
Actors named Corey

99 Luftbaloon

Bad hair..

Taaaaaaaaaaaaake oooooooooon meeeeeeeeeeee......

You know she's only like....20 or something.

Is she now only twenty? I wouldn't know about the latest celebrity gossip, because I moved back to Ireland in 2005. Are you sure you aren't confusing her with somebody else? I think it's quite a common name.

Charlotte Church was born in 1986, and her album Voice of an Angel was released in 1998.

Mommy and daddy having unprotected sex and ending up with me.

Anyway, the '80s....well, there was that whole being born thing.

Yeah...that was kind of annoying.

I remember my ripped jeans, and going through a whole can of aqua-net in a week......:p

Black clothing, black makeup and the concept "black is the new black."

school and being younger

Sit N Spin.

I loved my Sit N Spin. :)

No, that's the seventies.

Let's see...

Eighties:

Star Wars action figures, Van Halen and mud fights. :)

I remember New Kids On The Block, ridiculously high unemployment and irrational fear of the Japanese.

The past isn't just music, actors and fashion.:headbang:

The 80's is a sort-of 70's, except without the novelty of it all. I could say that the 80's, in culture, extends to the first years of the 1990's. Before the economic crash, before the breakthrough of this ubiquitous digital technology. A sort of last remaining golden era or utopia, where people still believed in it all. It was before serious globalization, "China phenomenon", and fragmentation of people's interests (seriously, EVERYONE had to do the same to be cool).

What it brings to my mind: presidents of that time, VCR's and 8-bit Nintendos as a new thing, a lot of style and design directly inherited from the 1970's, the Soviet Union still there. Also, the "casino economy", reckless lending and borrowing, hot air -based investments, a sort of "just before the fall" mindset.

I remember my ripped jeans, and going through a whole can of aqua-net in a week......:p

Did you have "the bangs" that stood straight up, lacquered into place with gel and hairspray?

The past isn't just music, actors and fashion.:headbang:

The 80's is a sort-of 70's, except without the novelty of it all. I could say that the 80's, in culture, extends to the first years of the 1980's. Before the economic crash, before the breakthrough of this ubiquitous digital technology. A sort of last remaining golden era or utopia, where people still believed in it all. It was before serious globalization, "China phenomenon", and fragmentation of people's interests (seriously, EVERYONE had to do the same to be cool).

What it brings to my mind: presidents of that time, VCR's and 8-bit Nintendos as a new thing, a lot of style and design directly inherited from the 1970's, the Soviet Union still there. Also, the "casino economy", reckless lending and borrowing, hot air -based investments, a sort of "just before the fall" mindset.

The past isn't just wars and politics!

Oh, I also think of I Love The 80's and I Love The 80's Strikes Back.

Not Born until 1994... Ask again later.... :p

Did you have "the bangs" that stood straight up, lacquered into place with gel and hairspray?

Believe it or not, I thought that was kinda cute.

Did you have "the bangs" that stood straight up, lacquered into place with gel and hairspray?

yeah, there were two parts, the one that stood straight up curled back, and the other that curled forward......it was like a satellite dish (or that's what my mom said) I will look for a picture.

The past isn't just wars and politics!

That's right. But I'm not talking only about wars and politics. From my list, let's take the Soviet Union: it's not just politics. It means that a part of the world is closed, something that is going to affect people's lives. I've visited Russia; actually, I've seen places which the Russians would NEVER have let foreigners visit when the paranoid Communists were still in power. And seeing something we don't have in this country - KFC - in Russia, now that's something.

I remember the fall of the Berlin wall - one of my strongest 80s memories.

And seeing something we don't have in this country - KFC

Be happy that you don't.

I remember the fall of the Berlin wall - one of my strongest 80s memories.

I remember watching it on television. But I certainly didn't have the political awareness to understand its importance.

The two things that I immediately think of when somebody mentions the 1980s are:

1) The computer game called Exile (BBC Superior), released in 1988.

2) Charlotte Church, who in 1982 at age twelve introduced her first album titled 'Voice of an Angel'.**I think it was 1982 and 1988. I lived in Ireland until 2001, and so I am not exactly sure of events that happened in the UK before that.

Big hair, metal, and the original Degrassi.

Big hair, metal, and the original Degrassi.

OMGZ, I loooove the original Degrassi.

I remember watching it on television. But I certainly didn't have the political awareness to understand its importance.

Situated as we were between NATO and the Warsaw Pact countries, even at 6,5 I was very much aware of how important it was.

I remember the fall of the Berlin wall - one of my strongest 80s memories.

Assuming you were in Sweden at the time, you would've been able to see the entire Eastern Bloc disintegrate only a short distance away...those must have been fascinating times.

OMGZ, I loooove the original Degrassi.

I liked the first two or three seasons of Degrassi TNG but after the fourth season or so it was just the same old thing (Craig and Ashley) over and over and over and I got turned off.

Until the shooting part. Then it got old again.

Unfortunately it's only on a 2 am now here. :(

Assuming you were in Sweden at the time, you would've been able to see the entire Eastern Bloc disintegrate only a short distance away...those must have been fascinating times.

I remember Jeltsin and the bombing of the Russian "White House" and I remember the endependence of the Baltic countries, but what I recall most in the years that followed were the Balkan wars, because of all the refugees that came to Sweden and that my parents were involved in helping. Feels like ages ago now...

MacGyver and horrible music.

I liked the first two or three seasons of Degrassi TNG but after the fourth season or so it was just the same old thing (Craig and Ashley) over and over and over and I got turned off.

Until the shooting part. Then it got old again.

Unfortunately it's only on a 2 am now here. :(

only way to see both of them now is on DVD

I liked the first two or three seasons of Degrassi TNG but after the fourth season or so it was just the same old thing (Craig and Ashley) over and over and over and I got turned off.
Until the shooting part. Then it got old again.
Unfortunately it's only on a 2 am now here. :(

I saw one episode of the new version and I couldn't stand the raping of my TV childhood, I simply couldn't. Sacrilege!

MacGyver and horrible music.

give me a pin ,a match and some gum and i'll make a bomb

Situated as we were between NATO and the Warsaw Pact countries, even at 6,5 I was very much aware of how important it was.Damn, your even younger than I thought.

When I think of 1980s, I the first thing I think of 1984...the book. Its kind of strange seeing as I have lived through the actual 80s.

Damn, your even younger than I thought.

How old did you think mine (:P) was?

I remember my ripped jeans, and going through a whole can of aqua-net in a week......:p

Enough about last week. What did you look like during the eighties?

TThe A-team, StreetHawk , Transformers HE-Man , Super Gran , the bloody Humber Bridge Opening , THunderCats tomato sauce flavour snap crisps and thoose 10p packet of american football crips that alegdy ment to be burger flavour for some reason and Tonsillitis because i had nearly every other christmas

Ring Raiders

The first thing that comes to mind when thinking of the 80's is sorry ass Reagan and his backward social policies that have continued until this day. Cut elderly housing assistance and welfare while running defficit spending to increase the might of the military.:sniper: :mp5:

Ronald Fucking Reagan


^ I'd like to say that that is a singularly disturbing image. No wonder the 80's was so screwed up, if this happened.

The two things that I immediately think of when somebody mentions the 1980s are:

1) The computer game called Exile (BBC Superior), released in 1988.

2) Charlotte Church, who in 1982 at age twelve introduced her first album titled 'Voice of an Angel'.*







*I think it was 1982 and 1988. I lived in Ireland until 2001, and so I am not exactly sure of events that happened in the UK before that.

A decade from the pre-historic ages...

I associate the 80s with the emergence of the self-satisfaction, smugness and sense of entitlement of the neocon movement. That, and pop being bottled in shitty PVC containers.

I associate the 80s with the emergence of the self-satisfaction, smugness and sense of entitlement of the neocon movement.

Hmmm... 1980's explosion of coke use in the Western world making its users self-satisfied, smug and self-serving... rise of the neo-conservatives... hmmm...

The '80s. Charlies Angels, big hair, the Bee Gees, and the Royal Wedding. All of which came to bad ends.

The two things that I immediately think of when somebody mentions the 1980s are:

1) The computer game called Exile (BBC Superior), released in 1988.

2) Charlotte Church, who in 1982 at age twelve introduced her first album titled 'Voice of an Angel'.*

*I think it was 1982 and 1988. I lived in Ireland until 2001, and so I am not exactly sure of events that happened in the UK before that.

I thought Charlotte Church's CD came out in 1992.

Anyway, I associate it with slums, gangs, graffiti, drugs, goth music, guys in make up, bloody Latin American revolutions and America's complicity in the bloodshed, and feeling like a tough guy if you manage to take a long ride on the Subway without getting mugged.

The A-team, Transformers, HE-Man, ThunderCats
Yep! And Trap Door. :)

And yes, the whole being born thing was quite big for me, too.

The two things that I immediately think of when somebody mentions the 1980s are:

1) The computer game called Exile (BBC Superior), released in 1988.

2) Charlotte Church, who in 1982 at age twelve introduced her first album titled 'Voice of an Angel'.*







*I think it was 1982 and 1988. I lived in Ireland until 2001, and so I am not exactly sure of events that happened in the UK before that.

charlotte church is younger than me, i think you have that wrong. i was born in '84.
here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_of_an_Angel)'s a link for you.

anyway, big hair and too much makeup is what i associate with the eighties.

The Haçienda (alas, if only I were 10 years older), New Order, hair metal, Knight Rider.

Members Only jackets
MTV
Challenger
Atari 2600
Girls in bubble skirts
the Berlin Wall coming down
Live Aid
graduating from High School
"Hair bands"
Indiana Jones movies.

British Knights, that dude breakdancin' on the ceiling. McDLTs.

My birthday, a lot of bad music and hairstyles and an economic boom period? Dunno what else...

Bad music and hairstyles aren't exactly exclusive to the 1980s...

Bad music and hairstyles aren't exactly exclusive to the 1980s...
Meh, it's what I associate with it though, simply because I can think of nothing else remarkable during that period.

Bad music and hairstyles aren't exactly exclusive to the 1980s...
And Music in the 80's wasn't any worse than music in the 70's or 90's. There were good acts (Metallica, Loreena McKennitt, Screeching Weasel, Root Boy Slim) and abysmal acts (Phil. Fucking. Collins., The Police), but people always want to focus on the crappy pop-stuff.
I'm not, however, going to defend the hair, even I have to maintain some sort of standards.

The '80s. Charlies Angels, big hair, the Bee Gees, and the Royal Wedding. All of which came to bad ends.

These two were from the '70s

The two things that I immediately think of when somebody mentions the 1980s are:


The beginning of the downfall of the US, as we first elected a leader based 100% on image rather than at least some thought toward ability and intelligence.

The downfall of the US economy based on shifting all wealth to the richest hoping they would tinkle down some of it to the rest based on their goodness and their superior ability and status compared to the commoner.

Oi! Oi! Oi!

And amusingly, lyrics that go "Do you remember the days of '69".

And Music in the 80's wasn't any worse than music in the 70's or 90's. There were good acts (Metallica, Loreena McKennitt, Screeching Weasel, Root Boy Slim)
Loreena Mckennitt is wunderbar.

For some reason, i seem to associate the 80's with sweaty gay sex in rooms where the thermostat is set to like 80 or 90, and with record-breaking year-round heat waves for some reason.

These two were from the '70s

The '70s were a blur for me.

communism and bad music/bad fashion

AND

MICHAEL JACKSON

Without reading past posts to remind of things I have forgotten or something.. I will list things that I remember off the top my head ..

Skating Rinks
Skating Rink songs
Riedell Skates
Colored Reebok shoes
Jean jackets
Members Only jackets
fat laces
Micheal Jackson
parachute pants
Duran Duran
Billy Idol
Sabago shoes
AC/DC
Where's the beef
Space Shuttle crash
Beastie Boys Licence to Ill
Leg Warmers (I had a purple pair) lol *Blush*
Debbie Gibson
Tiffany

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Great bands like The Police and Talking Heads.

I remember seeing the videos when MTV first started, and the Cure i believe and those two british dudes.. (Shout .. shout let it all out.. these are the thing I can do with out.. c'mon.. I'm talking to you.. c'mon).. them .. but I had no appreciation for decent music at the time.. I remember signing up to BMG music under rock.. expecting to get the Bangles and Debbie Gibson etc.. I got the Kinks the Who and some more.. I was like who the fuck is this? Thankfully I didn't throw them away.. Now I'm glad I got em. but then.. I was a dumbass.

These two were from the '70s

Technically the BeeGees were from the 60's - "New York Mining Disaster", and all that.

And Music in the 80's wasn't any worse than music in the 70's or 90's.

Exactly.


I'm not, however, going to defend the hair, even I have to maintain some sort of standards.

:p

Exactly.Oh shit.. I was about to say "at least you could dance to popmusic in the 80s". I'm having flashes of myself in a wheelchair bitching about all this newfangled rubbish the youth of today is into...

Shit..

Shit shit shit..

Now I'm just as sad as all the rest of you cronically whiny NSGers.

Oh shit.. I was about to say "at least you could dance to popmusic in the 80s". I'm having flashes of myself in a wheelchair bitching about all this newfangled rubbish the youth of today is into...

Shit..

Shit shit shit..

Now I'm just as sad as all the rest of you cronically whiny NSGers.
Hahaha. Welcome to the retirement village. Medication time is at 12:30pm, just after lunch...

Apart from that, there's not really much to do around here but stare at the window. see what I did there?

Oh shit.. I was about to say "at least you could dance to popmusic in the 80s". I'm having flashes of myself in a wheelchair bitching about all this newfangled rubbish the youth of today is into...

Every generation does that. I'm pretty sure a hundred years ago parents were saying to their kids, "vhat's vith you kids today and your Wagner. Vhen I vas your age ve listened to Beethoven. Now zere vas a composer."

Every generation does that. I'm pretty sure a hundred years ago parents were saying to their kids, "vhat's vith you kids today and your Wagner. Vhen I vas your age ve listened to Beethoven. Now zere vas a composer."
During the early 19th century the world was populated by ethnically-confused Jews who spoke English with a German accent? Oy vey.

During the early 19th century the world was populated by ethnically-confused Jews who spoke English with a German accent? Oy vey.

Did I say you could post?

1980's:

-Being Born
-Expo '88
-Watching the Berlin Wall Fall
-Starting school
-developing my childhood phobia of Child's Play movies. (Don't ask)

My biggest association from the 80s is that high school sucked but college was much better.

Without reading past posts to remind of things I have forgotten or something.. I will list things that I remember off the top my head ..

Skating Rinks
Skating Rink songs
Riedell Skates
Colored Reebok shoes
Jean jackets
Members Only jackets
fat laces
Micheal Jackson
parachute pants
Duran Duran
Billy Idol
Sabago shoes
AC/DC
Where's the beef
Space Shuttle crash
Beastie Boys Licence to Ill
Leg Warmers (I had a purple pair) lol *Blush*
Debbie Gibson
Tiffany

..... blank

Finally, someone here remebers the 80s the way i do. I'll just add:
The Cold War
Vans shoes
Ocean Pacific
The "Andropov Cold"
Atari (which was only semi-cool - you had to got to a video arcade to play a cool game)
Reaganomics and Thatcherism
Rubiks cubes
Tiananmen Square
Break dancing
Solidarity
Michael Jackson was still a black man who could sing and dance and not a bleached freak
The olympic boycotts
The Afghan-Soviet war
AIDS
John Hughes and the brat pack
And I want my MTV! (And MTV was MUSIC television)

Oh shit.. I was about to say "at least you could dance to popmusic in the 80s". I'm having flashes of myself in a wheelchair bitching about all this newfangled rubbish the youth of today is into...

Shit..

Shit shit shit..

Now I'm just as sad as all the rest of you cronically whiny NSGers.
Ah, we can take 'em - just remember, old age and guile will beat youth, innocence, and a bad haircut anytime (and twice on Sunday). ;)

Hungry Hippos.

Birth.

I was born at the tale end of 'em. Don't remember anything.

I associate good music, great movies, and awesome cartoons with the 1980s.

I associate good music, great movies, and awesome cartoons with the 1980s.

It was the Golden Age of teen movies. So very. Totally.

It was the Golden Age of teen movies. So very. Totally.

Agreed.

It was the Golden Age of teen movies. So very. Totally.

You mean other than the other Golden Age of teen movies back in the 50s, right?

Primarily, my birth.

Also Live Aid and U2 and the like.

I saw one episode of the new version and I couldn't stand the raping of my TV childhood, I simply couldn't. Sacrilege!

Some of the new version's episodes are geat, but at least half of all the new ones are really really crappy.

I was born at the tale end of 'em. Don't remember anything.

I was born in 1992. I don't remember anythign about the 80s either.

I was born in 1992. I don't remember anythign about the 80s either.

born in 83 had my mom ,sister and the TV i got one at 12 to thank for 80s stuff i know oh and don't forget the movies

rambo
conan
terminator
total recall
predator
etc etc

goths
new wave
post punk
blondie
queen
the police
etc

american psycho
wall street
gordon gekko
the falklands
great british comedy
inspector gadget

Ghostbusters
star trek movies
star trek tng
calvin and hobbes
ducktales
ghostbusters cartoon
nes
mario
crappy imitations of star wars
star wars

computers
commodore 64
prince valiant
swords and sorcery
green
she drives me crazy
aero bars
feast
a really shitty film called pulse
the philedelphia experiement
the gate
the gate 2
some long haired hippy dude being electrocuted or getting his hand caught in a door on tv
birdman
superman 2
the stranglers
an old anime film about people on a spaceship
alistairs time machine
ectoplasm
pke meters
proton packs
teenage mutant hero turtles (and why I hated them so much)
a crappy handheld game with this triangular monster dude 2 other triangles representing a fire and temple respectively
robocop

2) Charlotte Church, who in 1982 at age twelve introduced her first album titled 'Voice of an Angel'.*

That's 1998, unless you got a copy that fell though a wormhole.

Charlotte Church is teh sex0rz.

Bitchy censorship types.

Bitchy censorship types.

Oh yeah. Tipper Gore and the PMRC vs. Frank Zappa, Dee Snider, and John Denver.

Oh yeah. Tipper Gore and the PMRC vs. Frank Zappa, Dee Snider, and John Denver.

which reminds me, the mentors, those were sick bastards

Bad hair & bad fashion. Also shitty synth pop music.

Cheating bloody Aussies and their bloody Underarm deliveries!

Good things:

1-Indiana Jones
2-Gorby
3-The italian Democrazia Cristiana centre-right party losing majority at the elections
4-The Sigonella incident part 1(italian troops prevented US troops from arresting palestinian terrorists who hijacked an italian cruise ship, and the terrorists were sentenced by italian justice)
5-Heavy metal
6-Michel Platini playing for Juventus
7-Italy winning the FIFA World Cup in 1982
8-The argentinian fascist junta losing the war for the Falklands
9-The Smurfs
10-Return to the Future


Bad things:
1-The Return of the Jedi
2-Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet, the A-Ha and their ilk
3-The italian Partito Socialista becoming worse than the Democrazia Cristiana
4-Ronald Reagan and Bush senior
5-Maggie Thatcher
6-The Sigonella incident part 2 (when the palestinian terrorists were allowed to escape instead of being jailed in Italy)
7-Silvio Berlusconi's rise
8-McDonald coming to Italy
9-The italian Partito Comunista becoming the centre-left Partito Democratico della Sinistra
10-Diego Armando Maradona playing for Napoli

Cheating bloody Aussies and their bloody Underarm deliveries!

You know the best thing about the underarm delivery? Most Aussies have long forgotten it, but the Kiwis just can't get over it. :p

Really bad movies and really bad music. And bad hair. And clothes (even worse than today's). And crappy presidents. And an earthquake. This one freeway section collapsed and on the news they were looking at the cars that were crushed under it and they had to saw this kid's leg off to get him out. Did I mention that almost all the music sucked?

...and mud fights. :)
Isn't that every decade for you?

for me, the eighties meant skinny ties, shoulder pads, appalling make-up, bad hair and the A-Team.
and this sort of music:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsvP8fXlpbk
watch it if you dare!

Oh yeah, and the eighties also mean bands like these guys:
http://www.petewillismusic.co.uk/covers/POISONCrytough7.JPG

But just to show you I don't completely hate the 80's, it did give us Terminator, Aliens, Wings of Desire, Zork and the Rubiks cube.

Iran contra, Reaganomics sucking

Last day of school!:D

First day of work!:(

You know the best thing about the underarm delivery? Most Aussies have long forgotten it, but the Kiwis just can't get over it. :p
Because Australians are morons.:p

Hardcore Punk
Shitty metal
Those absurdly poofy hairstyles
Being born

1) The Ford RS200 and the "golden age" of rally racing

2) Japanese electronics in America (for the first time ever on a major scale)

The '80s were basically the armpit of decades. There were maybe five good acts in the world of music and most of those either started in the '70s or didn't become famous until the '90s. The politics were frightening. AIDS, crack, Iran-Contra, Nicaragua, the embassy hostages, Trickle-Down Economics (which, not coincidentally, sounds like it involves urinating on people), James Watt, Reagan/Thatcher/et al, bad TV, fuzzy-looking movie cinematography, computers (yeah, yeah, I'm using the internet), global warming, Burma, NAFTA, the Challenger, Three Mile Island, Mt. St. Helens, USA Today, rapid logging of the Amazon, etc. The only positive thing to come out of the '80s is me and slightly more than half of the people my age I know. Oh, yeah, and the whole Berlin Wall thing, but that was in 1989, so it doesn't really count. Besides, it replaced corrupt communist rule over rotting, stagnant countries with corrupt capitalist rule over rotting, stagnant countries. Oh, well, the '70s and '90s also kinda sucked, but they at least had a few mitigating factors (good rock 'n' roll and the internet, respectively).

Fraggle Rock
He-Man
She-Ra
Dayglo
Leg warmers
Bike shorts under skirts
Side ponytails
Leggings
Ninja Turtles
Skip-It
Popples
Swatch watches
The fall of the Berlin Wall
Tiananmen Square

...I don't remember much important about the 80s. I remember knowing that the last two things on my list were important, but not really understanding why. :p

1) The Ford RS200 and the "golden age" of rally racing

Oh yes, the Peugeot 205 T16, Audi Quattro Sport, Lancia Delta S4. Awesome cars.

Oh yes, the Peugeot 205 T16, Audi Quattro Sport, Lancia Delta S4. Awesome cars.

The Delta... *drools*

*reminisces*

My parents used to have a couple of deltas, just the normal ones. i used to love pretending i was a rally driver in them when i was a kid. one of my neighbours has an HF integrale... i want it :( .

My parents used to have a couple of deltas, just the normal ones. i used to love pretending i was a rally driver in them when i was a kid. one of my neighbours has an HF integrale... i want it :( .

The HF Integrale was the one I wanted to own as well. Le sigh.

The HF Integrale was the one I wanted to own as well. Le sigh.

i've got a magazine that tells me i can get a 8-valve HF for under £3000, or a 16v in good condition for less than £8000. as soon as i pay off my debts and start earning money that's what i'm aiming for. just as long as they don't start appreciating and/or rusting too much before that happens!

Ugly hair.
Cool music.
A lot of arcades and video games.
Michael Jackson when he was cool (and human).

The two things that I immediately think of when somebody mentions the 1980s are:

1) The computer game called Exile (BBC Superior), released in 1988.

2) Charlotte Church, who in 1982 at age twelve introduced her first album titled 'Voice of an Angel'.*







*I think it was 1982 and 1988. I lived in Ireland until 2001, and so I am not exactly sure of events that happened in the UK before that.
Charlotte Church is around 30 years of age?:eek:

I was born, that's all I remember about the 80's.

the bad news: the raygun-khomani kneejerk conspiracy to reverse the moral and equitable gains of the 60s and 70s

the good news: the personal computer becomming an off the shelf commodity item.

these were the tow biggies. i don't think anything else that happened in the 'first world' could or could have topped these two.

of course the computer thing could be pinned to 1977 for plug and chug pc's but it wasn't untill the 80s that the really big market of small to medium sized bussiness was tapped into. before then it was mostly hobbiests and dreamers like myself who saw the computer's potential as a medium of creative expression. enthused when the first cpu chips came out in the late 60s early 70s, frustrated when the first kits came available in 74-75 but you still couldn't usualy get the kind of power supply components you needed to actualy make them run. the first s-100 and multi-bus boxes were way too expensive for most of us due to the then niche nature of the market, we made due with trs-80s, commodore pets, apple IIs and vic-1000/20s, ti-99s, and in my case, the osi-c1p. but then ibm jumped into the fray and opened the small bussiness market so that by the mid 80s real computing power for the first time became affordable to the average joe.

both of these things, the computer thing and the defacto treasonus thing with raygun have had a major impact on history ever since and continue overshadowing us to this day.

=^^=
.../\...

The Terminator

Being born

Gorbachev being a prat and ruining the best governance system this world has ever seen

The HF Integrale was the one I wanted to own as well. Le sigh.

I don't know how you and Kat do it, but that's really awesome.

The Terminator

Being born

Gorbachev being a prat and ruining the best governance system this world has ever seen

Oh, you mean the one that killed 100 million+ people? Yes, great system. :rolleyes: