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Nostalgia for the 1980s Is so crawling that even people who were not alive during the glorious decade as celebrating as if they were. Teens today will even putbranch Kangol and boogie hats on the tastes ofLl cool j. However, those of us who attended the 80s, they are not just feeling feeling for this era of revelation. All these cultural clichés that people try to imitate? Yes, it's in our DNA. We are the 80s and the 80s are we. Keep reading to discover 50 things that any real child of the 80s will not remember, but still still thinks on a regular basis. You can get the kid from the 80s, but the 80s will always persevere.

When it has happened to financial and fashionable security in the 1980s, Kangaroo was the model of everyone. Yes, Fanny packs are totally ridiculous. And yet, it's hard not to love an accessory that makes things more accessibleand Security guard.

When MTV is created in 1981, he offered 24 hours of videos without stopping. The only warning? In this world beforeYoutube, You were helpless to MTV programming and you would often end up waiting for hours of waiting just for your three favorite minutes.Men without hats video.

In the 1980s, everyone had a harassing anxiety that imminent nuclear war. And it did not help television, movies like 1983The next day Represented heartbreaking scenes in the world after a nuclear attack. SameSting expressed the feeling that we all had with his 1985 hit "Russians:"" I hope the Russians love their children too. "

Never before the 80s saw a television event similar to theMASH POTATOESfinal. When the episode of two and a half-hour "goodbye, goodbye and amen" was broadcast on 28 February 1983, more than 100 million viewers were listened to, making it theMost watched program in the history of television at the time. (It was only beaten in 2010 by the Super Bowl.) That you look religiously all 11 seasons ofMASH POTATOESOr you could not choose "Hawkeye" Pierce of the range, this final series has been one of these shared experiences that have people related in the 1980s.

Leg heater with oversized vertices to members only jackets, all you wander in the 80s had to be so brilliant and dynamic that your outfit became its own source of light. If you look directly at your set, you may harm the irreversible cornea, you knew you're doing something good.

It was called the biggestcommercial In the history of the Super Bowl, but in 1984, when it was broadcast, most people had no idea what it was trying to sell. In 60 seconds hypnotizing, Macintosh treated viewers to a Dystopian nightmare in which a Big Brother conference was interrupted by a woman in a bright red shorts launched a mallet to the screen and causing an explosion.

Bizarre advertising ended in a disturbing voice announcing the new Personal Computer Apple Macintosh and quite just everyonehad have a. There have been attempts to duplicate the captivating strangeness of this original Apple business, but like theThat time Once observed, "there can be only one ... just as there can be only one Hoover dam or an Eiffel Tower".

The marriage betweenPrince Charles andDiana Diana In the summer of 1981, it was more than the show ofrich monarchs be met. At the time, about 750 million people around the world watched what was widely described as a fairy tale tale tale marriage, including the one who influenced the nuptiales for years to come. Even the biggest cynical could not help but get butterflies in their stomach after looking at these royal lovers finally say "I do".

It's still a mystery why the company Coca-Cola thought it was a good idea to grab its proven and true recipe for what was essentially a pepsite dose. Naturally, when they unleashed "new coke"In 1985, the response was overwhelmingly negative. AccordingTime,Over 40,000 letters were delivered to the company, demanding they bring back the original recipe ...or else. Coca-Cola has finally made three months after the release, and it was such a new newsPeter Jennings even interrupted an episode of the daytime soapGeneral hospital make the announcement.

Maybe it was all make-up and prosthetics, butMatt Frewer-the man behindmax House-Sure had us fooled that we will see in the future. The ABC series, which was shown only from 1987 to 1988, was necessary. He even made a convincing case for the new coke when Max has delivered the inimitable castration, "C-C-Catch the Wave!"

In March 1981, the world watched asPresident Ronald Reagan was shot byJohn Hinckley Jr.leaving a hotel in Washington, D.C. It was not the firstpresidential Attempted murder, but in a new media age in which cameras were everywhere, the meeting of these frightening minute made the audience as if they were in the middle of it.

In the 1980s, making mixtapes was an art. It was not like Spotify playlists of today, you can add an unlimited number of songs to throw with some keyboards. Rather, a Mixtape 80s meant working with tapes, which provided only a finite number of minutes to make a musical statement. In addition, you had to havephysical Copies of the music that you understand. What a concept, huh?

By the 80s, there were very few households in the United States who did not have at least one well-worn VHS copyTraining Jane Fonda. The drive belt at home was so popular, in fact, it is now one of the top selling video of all time, withMore than 17 million copies sold. What made him so popular - with the fact that Fonda herself wore a belted leotard and to sweat for synth music - was that the exercises were ahead of their time, following the same routine stretching and strength that manypersonal trainers use today.

"You had this hair dragged and those travelers on, baby." WhenDon Henley Sangmi these immortal lines in his 1984 hit "The Boys of Summer", it was not a random choice of wardrobe. In the 80s, Ray-Ban travelers were the only sunglasses that anyone would even consider relevant or hip to. OfThe blue brothers ToTom CruiseandMadonna ToJack NicholsonEveryone coveted Ray-Bans. SingerCorey Hart samesôsière wore the nightAlthough no one could ever understand why. (So ​​it can what?)

Over the 80 years, you have not been able to ask someone to simply swipe left or right on aphone application. You had to pick up the phone, dial a number, and then have an awkward conversation while you have gathered the courage to ask your crush to a date. This is not always gone according to plan, but it was the excitement of the game.

VCRs were already sold in the late 70s, however, the price tag on the machine can then be oppressive, ranging from $ 1 000 to $ 1 400. So it was not until the 80s they have become more ubiquitous. When prices fell at a much more reasonable US $ 400, suddenly, every household had its own VCR. The only question was, did you want a VHS or Betamax? (There was only one right answer, but no one knew it.)

Who does not need a new phone that looks exactly like an obese orange cat with a appetite for lasagna? And if it was not scary enough (or kitschy) enough for you, Garfield's eyes would also open and close each time the receiver was picked up or deposited. (Here is an example of one in the 1985 movieNinja Terminator.)

Of course, it is not delivered with all the special features of today's phones, but the children of the 80s nevertheless loved them. And if you want a garfield phone, they were washedOn the banks of France For about 30 years now. Go help you!

All about the 1989Exxon Valdez oil spillWhen an oil tanker reversed 11 million gallons of crude oil in the Arctic waters of Alaska, was horrified to watch. However, there was a glimmer of hope when people learned that dawn, the dishwashing detergent, was effective in cleaning oil for birds and sea turtles. A 2003 report by the US service fish and fauna (quoted by an article inWichita Eagle) claimed that dawn is highly recommended "because it eliminates feather oil; is not toxic; and leaves no residues."

Ferris Bueler (Matthew Broderick), Chicago High School, who played Hooky and had the adventure of a lifetime, was all that teens wanted to imitate in the 1980s. He was the ideal child for children who wanted to driving badly without doing anything technically illegal. Of course, maybe it was almost impossible to run a "Twist and Shout" show, but most people could at least find an excuse to skip work or school and see a ball game. As remembered Bueller in the film of 1986, "life moves fast enough. If you do not stop and look around from time to time, you can miss it." And for more timeless classics, checkThe 50 best American movies of all time.

Although it is prudent to assume thatMr. T was constantly pitying fools on his first TV show,The team hasHe did not really pronounce the sentence there. SPRONTRASE started with the 1982 movieRocky II, in which M. T, like Boxer Clubber Lang, chuckled during an interview that he did not hate Rocky Balboa, "butI plains the madman." With thatOFT-CITED line, Mr. T transformed the fool pity in a chalet industry. Even more than its Mohawk or gold chains, that's what he will always remember.

First ladyNancy Reagan had the best intentions when she launched the "just say no" campaign in the early 1980s, although some critics complained that his solution to the drug epidemic was perhaps a littletoo much Simplistic. But when she made acottageShots and convincedGary Coleman And the gang that "all the medicines are stupid", well, that was enough for us. "Say no" it's, Nancy!

There are sports rivalries, and then there is the old rivalry of basketball ticketsMagic Johnson andLarry bird. They were Thor and Loki of their time; Professor X and Magneto of the 1980s Basketball. Who did you see because the so-called bad guy depended on which team do you root - but when it was raw talent and instant sympathy, it was difficult To deny that the magic and Larry were quite well matched.

The first time you sat with aRubik's Cube In the 80s, it probably seemed impossible. However, this impossibility was what made Rubik's cube as popular. People like a good mystery, after all! The national obsession with the Rubik cube was so huge that ABC has even tripled a cartoon with a cube of rubik like the main character titledRubik, the incredible cube. (Yes, it was terrible, but most people watched anyway because of the cube fever of Rubik.)

Just month after Gordon Gekko pronounced these infamous words inOliver Stone 1987 masterpieceWall Street- "Cupidity, for lack of a better word, it's good" - the "black Monday" Crash Crash Devasted Wall Street and a large part of the global economy. In the biggest drop in the history stock exchange, the industrial average of Dow Jonesfell by 22.6% In one session. Billions of dollars in wealth have been lost all over the world. So yes, 1987 was a year that gave us both aSuper cool quote About greedy and concrete evidence that sometimes greed is to bite you in the arms.

On May 25, 1986, about 6.5 million people held hands for 15 minutes in the country and created the greatest expression of human love and compassion that the world has ever seen. Or at least it was the idea whenKEN KRAGEN tempted to organize hands across America. In reality, there were great gaps in the southwestern deserts and some breeders used their livestock to fill the empty points, putting them sabot. So, really, calling the "hands and hooves across America" ​​would have been more precise.

Bon Jovi.Cinderella.Raw motley.Def Leppard.Poison.Catch.White snake.Barrack.Quiet riot.Van hallen. So much ofAqua net Has been used to create the hair for these metal and rock bands alone, it's incredible that we have an ozone layer left at all.

There is a reason whyTime Called "the large cabbage patch of the children of the madness of 1983." Certainly, we all have done a few bonkers for these adorable dolls that seemed strangely likeMickey Rooney. Some parents are even taken into the toy shops, are fighting to get the perfect cabbage patch for their child. We are not hyperbolic; The parents were seriouslyperforation Mutually for dolls.

You would be in your car listening to a cassette or in your living room while listening to a vinyl record on the hi-fi system, and suddenly, the music would be just ... Stop. If you wanted to continue switching, you had to stop what you do and take out the cassette or pick up vinyl recording and return it. Yes, in the 80s, listening to your favoritemusic involved active participation. The harsh reality of physical media is that only so many songs can integrate on one side one.

If there was such a thing that it will become viral in the 1980s, it happened during the finals of the 1980 season ofDallaswherein the Tycoon J.R. Ewing oil (played byLarry Hagman) was shot by ... someone. Nobody knew by whom, but everyone could talk about this summer. More people had wild and remote theories about who fired at J.R. of Kennedy's assassination. There was so much excitement and speculation that whenDallas later returned that year, a record of 83 million viewers settled, according toThe history chain.

Until 1980, you could only watch the news at the designated hours of the morning and evening. But with the arrival of CNN, the news junkies had a way to stay informed 24 hours a day.

Although the idea ofTED turner Become the cultural phenomenon that this is today during the Gulf War in the early 1990s, those who allowed the 1980s were able to attend the dawn of a new media age in its infancy.

In the 80s, just about all the children of the country wanted to learn some breaks movements. Maybe everyone had not had what it took to break a movement like the windmill or head of the head - but if you could draw a respectable robot, that was enough to get you to The dance of school without looks completely stupid.

As on September 11, all those who lived in the 80s know exactly where they were on January 28, 1986. It is that day that the 10th flight of the Challenger Space Shuttle, which brought fiveNASA astronautsAnd a civilian teacher, exploded only 73 seconds in his flight, killing everyone on board. Innocent lives have been lost that day - and the dream of everyday people who do sospare felt even more out of reach.

What does Chicago bears the most exciting team of sport in 1985? Winning the Super Bowl has certainly helped, but what has finally gave the team a feeling was a little deathhit song called "The Super Bowl Shuffle. "Although their singing and dance was just meaning, there was something hypnotic about the bad hilarious way all the production was still after all these years, we can not help but sing each ridiculous lyrical:. We are not here to not have problems / we are right here to do the Super Bowl Shuffle! "

Who knew that a baby trapped in a well could bring an entire nation together? But that's exactly what happened when a half-yearJessica McClure MoralsFell into a well in the yard of his aunt in Midland, Texas, in the fall of 1987. Everyone in the country was glued to their television screens, the rescuers worked tirelessly to attract the child to The safety of this crypt of 22 feet deep. It was a nail bite at every step of the way - and when this baby's face cooked to the mud finally saw the sunlight, she felt like a victory for all.

Of course, you could playvideo games At home, but there was something special in the 80s on the arcade strike with a big roll of quarters in your pocket and challenge some friends to a friendly ramp game. The sound of an arcade packed with children striking happily on buttons and shooting on the joysticks will always be music to our ears.

Many Americans did not have everything that conscious of famine in Ethiopia until they heard the unforgettable choir of "Do they know it's Christmas, "Recorded by a great group of British musicians called Band-Aid. In addition to collecting money for the relief of famine, the song also delivered a pretty catchy pipeline. Even people who did not think about Ethiopia for decades can still run these words, "know it's Christmastime in Aaaaall?"

The groupWhite snakeMade of 80s Pop metal that were easy to forget. However, it was not so easy to forget that their musical videos, especially those who put the girlfriend of the principal singer,Tawny Kitaen, who didrolling on a luxury car look like a classic ballet. Its basic roles in Whitesnake videos were sufficient to inspire hundreds of children around the world to follow their musical dreams.

In the 80s,David Letterman Was always the rebull of late television and he knew how to find the comedy in things that no one had ever considered before. Case in point: We never thought that Velcro was all that is funny until we saw a lettering with Velcro shoes, a Velcro dart gun, a Velcro basketball and - themain dish-A Velcro costume. If you never watched a man in full velcroJumping from a trampoline on a velcro wall, you do not know what you are missing.

It started with torn holes in the knees of your jeans or tights and cut the collar on your sweatshirt, so you look like toJennifer Beals inFlash dance. And soon, he has evolved in a style movement where clothes were not fashionable unless it was almost entirely shredded. There is evenOnline tutorials On how to cut a shirt so that it has the air '80 - ready.

As if people in the 80s do not feel rather anxious about the threat ofnuclear warChernobyl's 1986 catastrophe made everyone all conscious of the vulnerable. On 26 April 1986, in a nuclear power plant in Ukraine in the former Soviet Union, an explosion of the reactor resulted in a liberal amount of radiation in the atmosphere. As a result, 30 people died and hundreds of people were despicable with radiation intoxication and we took weeks just to completely contain the incident.

It was one of the biggest obstacles in Olympic history and a reason to feel proud of American athletes. The 13th 1980 Winter Olympic Games took place in Lake Placid, New York, but chances were stacked against the American hockey team. With a team composed of university children, no one expected the United States to have a chance against the Soviets, who had a Powerhouse team of experienced athletes. However, on February 22, 1980, the Americans of Soviets beat the Soviets in a beautiful story, a story of David-And-GoliathIllustrated sport picked in 2016 as theA greater moment in sport history.

Maybe everyone secretly wanted to be mork (Robin Williams)MORK & MINDYor maybe they thought that an inflated vest would turn them to Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox)Back to the future. Whatever the reason, the DOWN vests were not just something that your mother has made you wear on autumn days in cold but not too cold; The children in the 80s wore them because we thought they were cool.

ELIZABETH DECOLLE,Elizabeth Taylor's 1986 Bestselling book on weight loss, was a convincing reading even if you did not want to give up some books. In just a page question, the Taylor Council could zig-zag to be useful tosquare. Certainly, we have not yet tried to make a patented tuna salad - which involves combining tuna with a tomato paste, grapefruit, sparkling and mayonnaise - and we will probably never do it. We are also not in a hurry to eat peanut butter and steak sandwiches, that Taylor swore or covers our fruits with a cheese-cheese cream vinaigrette. Just read on it - just reduce our appetite, frankly.

The concept itself behind the Nintendo Game Boy seemed too good to believe when he came out in 1989. At the time, people would have been as shocked as Jetpacks become commercially available. But pretty sure, Nintendo had done what seemed impossible at the time: they found a way for players to hold a game device in the palm of their hands. Certainly, the games were not so sophisticated to Tetris look like paintings at the cave by today's game standards - but it still felt a sweet, the sweet freedom that could be at the game.

Although most people do not remember much of the first televised televised MTV video music prices in 1984, they will always rememberMadonna twisting around the stageIn a wedding dress singing "like a virgin". It was not exactly revolutionary things, but it was impossible to divert the unique performance.

Years later, in an interview withJay LenoMadonnaadmitted That his stadium ramp happened only because she lost one of her stilettos during performance. "I thought," Oh my God; How am I going to have it? It's there and I'm on television, "she explained." So I thought, "Well, I'll pretend I wanted to do that" and I colored on the floor. I rolled and reached the shoe. "And so the story has been made.

We can always imagine as if it were yesterday: calm and rudeBjorn Borg Compared to its rival, short-term and volatileJohn McEnroe. It was not just a big tennis match; It was the most dramatic tennis confrontation of all time. Although the two players had won seven times against each other, it was Borg who would be victorious in Wimbledon of 1980, winning his fifth straight title and causing McEnroe to have epic angry attacks.

From the "Choosing Life" shirt inspired byWham 1984 struck "wake me up before leaving from" The "Frankie tell you relax" that everyone was wearing, whether it's listening to Frankie Group goes to Hollywood, Slogan Shirts was a statement of Essential mode In the 80s for anyone who wanted to look like what they were dragging regularly in the green MTV room.

Men and women have clothed the "do who proposes business at the front and party in the back, despite future regrets. SameGeorge ClooneyThe most beautiful living man referred to his brief Sint with a mule in the 80s as his "clumsy phase".

President Reagan first published the challenge in a speech in Berlin in 1987, infamously asking for the Soviet chief to "slaughter this wall". Nobody really believed that it would happen, but only two and a half years later, the wall that had divided East and West Germany for nearly three decades and had become a symbol of the cold war. finally went down. Think about this day-november, November 9, 1989 - always gives us shivers.

There are so many rumors about the origins ofAcid washing jeans. Some believe that an Italian company accidentally washed jeans in water without water and realized that they hit gold; Others think it was punk rockers who first invented the gaze in the early 80s, splashing bleach on their jeans and jackets so that they seemed more damaged. Although we may not know where acid washed jeans come, we know they were a staple food in the 80s for everyone from the Child Shopping Center at the city center club.

All it took was a scene in 1989Say anything, during whichJohn Cusack stood on the lawn of his ex-girlfriend and held a boombox on his flagrant headPeter Gabriel's "In your eyes," and suddenly, every guy was convinced that he knew exactly how woo the woman of his dreams. As much as we loved this movie, he should have come with a disclaimer: "Please, do not attempt that at home." And for more romantic gestures, you should go in the past, here's25 old-fashioned meetings to stop after 40.

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