20 things all the children of the 80s remember

From the Moonwalk to Betamax, these edits will make you feel the nostalgia of the 80s.


People can be too fast to reject the 80s: they associate with synthetic pants and parachutes, as if everyone living during this decade has behaved as if they were extras in a video of MTV music . But for those of us whogrew up during the 80sHe felt more important. The music that the others find if at cheese still manages to bring a tear to our eye and we remember the milestones of the decade as if they were the most important benchmarks in the history of the world. Hey, the 80s gave civilization the moonwalkand the fall of the Berlin Wall. For all the significant things of the 80s, the children remember that others seem to forget when starting this tubular decade, read it.

1
Adjustment in the final episode ofMASH POTATOES.

M*A*S*H (1972) final episode
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Even if you were not a fan of the show,everyone Listening to February 28, 1983 atWatch the historic final episode of this classic Sitcom. In addition to more than 106 million others, we dropped during the last stage - when Hawkeye looked down at her helicopter and we understood that B.j. had spelled "goodbye" with rocks on the helipad.

2
To be riveted by the baby rescue Jessica

President George H. W. Bush meeting Baby Jessica McClure at the White House in 1989
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When a18 month old baby fell a well In the yard of his aunt in 1987, the world was pierced by efforts to save her. It took 56 hours to get it out and CNN broadcast every second nail rescue. It has so intense thatPresident Ronald Reagan Required: "Everyone in America has become homes and parties in Jessica while it was happening." He felt like that for us all who lived there.

3
Learn to "say no!"

nancy reagan giving a speech with her just say no button
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ThisAnti-drug campaign, created and championed by the first ladyNancy Reagan During his presidency of her husband, was a large part of the decade. Regardless of its effectiveness, the first campaign of the lady around the country and appearances invited on shows likeShots is something that every child of the 80s will remember.

4
Drag with the Smurfs

screenshot from the original smurfs show
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If your only memory of the Smurfs is a lively computer movie featuredNeil Patrick Harris, you do not know anything about the blue creates that hypnoté so many children in the 80s. It is through a strange cartoon Saturday morning in the early 80s we learned for the first time on the tiny common Who used "Smurf" as a name, verb, adjective and species identifier. We watched all of this by eating SMURF-BERRY CRUNCH cereals and play with our Smurf dolls. It was a schtrufy world!

5
Try to learn the moonwalk

michael jackson at a concert in 1988
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WhenMichael Jackson The Moonwalk for the first time in 1983 in 1983 singing "Billie Jean" during a TV show by Motown, he did not just become his signature move. It was also the moment when every child of the United States decided they wanted to be a pop Superstar. If you have not practiced the back slide - that seemed wrongly easy when Jackson did it - then it's debatable if you were actually achild during the 80s.

6
Listen to music on a walk for the first time

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Thanks to smartphones, we take a laptop listening for granted. But in the 80s, try a walk for the first time as nothing looked like a revolution. You can listen to your favorite songs while going out in the world? And you can do it privately - without forcing your musical tastes on the general public? Girls and JetPack robots would have been less fortunate in life.

7
To learn that Dark Vader was Luke's father

the empire strikes back star wars screenshot
Walt Disney Photos

It has become one of the most famous lines in the history of pop culture, but nothing compares to hear it for the first time in a cinema cinema - and not knowing for sure if Darth Vader said the truth. Do not forget that it was at the same time the Internet did not exist. Excitement not to know the exact line betweenDarth Vader and Luke Skywalker is something that future generations will never understand.

8
Feel inspired by hands across America

demi moore and emilio estevez at hands across america
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For a day in 1986, 6.5 million people held hands to recognize hunger and homelessness, create aHuman chain across the United States. Or at least that's what we remember being said. Most of us have never thought where to go part of the historical event. But that certainly happened and we definitely caught that we were a "part" of it.

9
Be horrified by the explosion of Challenger

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The tearing moment when the Challenger spatial shuttle exploded only 73 seconds after taking off, killing the seven crew members, including the Civil School teacherChrista McAuliffe-June to always be separated in our memories. It's a horror that did not seem real, even if it happened before our eyes on live television and that many of us have still not been able to make sense to date.

10
Make the Super Bowl Shuffle

Super Bowl Shuffle album cover featuring Chicago Bears
Red Label Music Edition

You do not need toFootball Love memorize each lyrique at this emblematic and totally ridiculousan amazing shot In 1985, Super Bowl Champions, Chicago Bears. It was the kind of song that was not afraid to go rhymes like "I'm the rookie" and "No mute biscuit". Never have professional athletes have been so willing to make complete fools of themselves - we have been hypnotized.

11
Watch promotions after school

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The ABC After School Special is the way we learned - with the help of famous people who were not famous enough - this drunk driving is bad (thank you,Michelle Pfeiffer), that adolescents can have complicated emotions (Ben Affleck), and this depression is a disease (Matthew Modin andMeg Ryan) Seriously, where were we going to learn these things?

12
See Greg Landanis struck his head on the diving board at the 1988 Olympic Games

greg louganis, GARY09 Diving - Seoul Olympic Games, biggest male icon
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This guy was one of the best divers on the planet, with two gold medals under his Olympic Games belt of 84. No one planned something other than perfection. And then, at the Olympics of 88 in Seoul, hehit his head on diving During a somersault dive reverse and gave birth to a cerebral concussion! Today it would be like seeingJames Lebron Travel on a basketball balloon and fall flat on his face - it does not happen. Louganis finally had five stitches, but not before returning to the painting with a bloody scalp and try diving again. He won a gold medal and cemented his place inOlympic History.

13
Get a little scared when a computer has been named "man of the year"

time magazine machine of the year 1983
Time Inc.

In 1982, a personal computer became the first non-human to be celebrated onTime magazines Annual cover "Man of the Year". They called it "machine of the year" and even those of us who had never touched a computer knew it was important. At the same time, it was a little scary. Does this mean that robots have finally been ready to conquer human civilization and transform us into heaven? Fortunately, the machines have not yet been taken ...

14
Opening of trapper guards

trapper keeper coolest school accessory every year
Flickr / Jeremy Reding

There was something refreshing on theriiiiiiiip with a velcro sleeve of the trapper keeper being open. It was as if your personal papers were the most protected things in the universe. Nobody could break into a trapper holder without alerting everyone within a mile radius.

15
Watch President Reagan says "Unpaid this wall!"

Ronald Reagan Craziest U.S. Presidents
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Even if you were too young to understand what the Berlin Wall was or why it was important, we all knew it was a big deal. Thus, when our president declared, during a speech by West Berlin in 1987, "M. Gorbachev, shoot down this wall, "took into account the whole world. Just two years later, in November 1989, the Wall of Berlin finally came down, and she had the impression that democracy would never be the same.

16
Switch to the concert of live help

Freddie Mercury on stage and triumphant at Live Aid concert in July 1985
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Each star of the 80s played thisHistorical advantage concert In 1985, designed to raise funds to stop Ethiopian famine. More than a billion people watched the performance, which was broadcast in 110 countries. If you were not glued to your seat for theLED Zeppelin Meeting or watchingFreddie MercuryAnd the rest of the queen Commanding the crowd at the Wembley stadium, you missed something really spectacular.

17
SpringPee-Wee's Playhouse

paul reubens in pee wee's playhouse
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Covering five seasons in the late 80s,Pee-Wee's Playhouse Was the most creative, surreal, hilarious, hilarious and wall-mounted surrender on Saturday morning. In a way, he managed to feel both innocent and subversive, a safe fantastic that seemed vaguely dangerous. It was the perfect escape for any child who felt different and needed a reminder that he was not alone.

18
Watch movies on a betamax

betamax mechine from the
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Children today do not just know the pain to go to a video store, finding the video you expected weeks to see and realize with horror that it is only available on VHS, and your family has a Betamax player. Injustice!

19
Have nightmares on Teddy Ruxpin

teddy ruxpin doll sitting on a counter
Flickr / Colin Way

This may seem like an old-fashioned technology of today's technology, but for those of us who have never seen a teddy bear speak and flash,Teddy ruxpin was downright horrible.

20
Identify with characters in the movies John Hughes

The Breakfast Club Movie scene
Universal photos

OfThe breakfast club ToSixteen candles, we did not look at theseJohn Hughes-The films mixed as a diversion of the real world. They were plans to our personal identities as adolescents. Were you a Blane or Duckie? If this reference does not make sense, your youth was not defined by Pretty in pink -And we can not connect.


Categories: Culture
Tags: 1980s / kids / Nostalgia
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