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Here’s a reality check nobody asked for: the beginning of the ‘80s is as far away in time as is the year 2068. Yeah, time flies when we’re doom-scrolling cat memes.

So, why not celebrate it with a trip down memory lane with the help of Totally Awesome 80s, an Instagram page that shares all things ‘80s (with a little bit of ‘70s and ‘90s sprinkled in between).

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Marcellus II
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2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Of course I remember. It’s still my parents‘ number.

Robert T
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2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Mine was up until 7 years ago when my parents finally downsized. 47 years with the same number!

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ninjaTrashPandaBoom
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2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We had to memorize our home phone number and address...my mom even made us keep a quarter in our shoe for the payphone just in case...KangaRoos were so cool

Roxy222uk
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2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not only that but one house we lived in, in a village in Cheshire, started with a four digit phone number, and I remember the fifth digit being added (in the days when the dialling code for your area was a whole other number that you learnt later on)

Robert T
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2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I remember dialling local numbers without a dialling code. I also remember '1' day, when all phone numbers got an extra '1' after the initial '0'.

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Chucky Cheezburger
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2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh shart...I DO remember it...hadn't thought of it in 30 years, and its still there.

David Brown
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2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Did we just become best friends?

Alice Landers
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2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm 70yrs old ... Had a 'party line' lift make sure no one else using (or listen if they were lol) 4 digits #5370

François Carré
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2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm old enough to have memorized a 6-digit home phone number when I was a kid : 213307

Auntriarch
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2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Three digit. Changed to four digits a year later. 3119.

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Jack Burton
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2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I left home in 2001 and my brain needs less than one second to remember the phone number. This one the only number you could give to friends and girls, the only number to remember if you were in trouble.

Libstak
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2 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

366 4589....1971 to 1986. Bffs was 366 3168. Haven't tried to get Into my Facebook for 12 years...forgot my password, can't be bothered sorting that s**t out.

Javelina Poppers
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2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As soon as I read this the number immediately popped right into my head.

B. J. Moore
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1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

👍🏻👍🏾👍🏽👍🏿

Lady Vader
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2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yep. It's etched onto my brain!

Jo Hardy
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2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I thought it was just me!!

Blondie23
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2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

*fist pump in the air* My people!!!!

kkathleen517
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2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I remember 2 of my old home phone numbers from when I was a kid! And my grandparents number which I can remember calling and not having to put in an area code! Oh and my moms old work phone number from 20 years ago! You know how many times I called my mom at work? Enough to remember it two decades later! And HBO used to be on channel 7! Lol

Masaya Ichikawa
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2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Those phone numbers are suitable for passwords, actually.

Stuart Beatty
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2 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Pretty easy for me. Childhood phone number (small country town, 1950s) 111. Pronounced "one double one". Actually, that's how my Dad answered the phone until he died, in 2014. Because they just added a whole bunch of numbers, but the last 3 were still 111.

Stuart Beatty
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2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Pretty easy for me. My childhood phone number was 111.

Jennifer Brown
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2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

and half the time I forget where I right them down

Slap Shot
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2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I can remember my phone number from when I was 10 and I’m 76!

ThisisEngland
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2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think it's a real shame I never got to experience receiving a reverse charge phone call from my kids.

Sandy Turner
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2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wouldn't that mean one of them is in jail? It's no fun, I speak from experience.

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Sven Horlemann
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2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Gee. How did you know. I do remember the phone number. This is... disturbing.

Paul Gerrard
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2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Actually it was the home phone. The one with the curly cord. You hoped your brother or sister wasnt on it. And dont call after X pm.

Leanne Hailes
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2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My parents still have "my childhood phone number" which I will never forget. And if I don't write my new password on a sticky note & put it in the folder with my 5 million other passwords I wouldn't remember it 10 minutes after I created it 😕🤣

Curry on...
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2 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Heck, I remember my childhood friend's home phone number, but I don't know my son's or daughter's.

pete
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2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Still remember my old phone number ,but can't remember what I ate this morning.

Dash Junior
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2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I remember my childhood phone number. I can not tell you the current phone numbers of my mother or my sister or my best friend.

erna hapsari
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2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

my house, my granny's, my three childhood friends', my high school's, and this is strange but post office and police station used to have designated local number and i still remember them.

John McLeod VII
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2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had ONE ten digit childhood phone number. I have around 350 passwords that are far longer and more complicated, therefore I use a password manager so I don't need to know what they are.

Lsai Aeon
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2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I mean I still remember my childhood phone number, but I still have it. Just moved back to my childhood home after inheriting it. It gets fewer spam calls for some reason, trashing the number I've had for the last 30 ish years that constantly gets spam calls

Danielle
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2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I use my mental rollodex of my friend's and family's discontinued phone numbers AS my passwords (with the initial of who it belonged to). Putting those memories TO WORK.

Delenn
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2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I even remember the license number of the car my parents had when I was a child, 42 years ago

Aubrie Allen
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2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

781-7189! So the weird thing about my number is in the late 80's early 90's Jeb Bush used our phone number on his business cards that he gave to people he didn't actually want to talk to, haha. We got calls for him all the time.

Sahitya Madhavan
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2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Didn't realize how bang on this is!!!

Riley Quinn
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2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not only is the home number etched into my brain, but the taverns I'd have to call at the behest of my mother to find my father who'd busted his butt all day and just wanted a couple beers before coming home.

Bill Smith
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2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Viking 20281 Shrewsbury Ma 1950's and I have to write down all my passwords

mitch wilder
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2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My childhood number is my password to a lot of things.

Bill Walker
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2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've actually incorporated my best friends childhood phone numbers into my passwords. I will never forget those!

The Queen
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2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And no, we don't have that number anymore. It's been 30 years.

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Frances Mooney
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2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And my first car's license number....

Angela C
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2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yup. Still remember my first childhood phone number (from when we moved into the house I grew up in), my second childhood phone number (from when my parents had to change our number because we were getting calls for some convict), both sets of grandparents' phone numbers (that are still in my phone despite my last grandparent dying 5 years ago), and my childhood "friend's" phone number

Valentin Iulian
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2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I’m 36 and I still remember the first landline number we had. The fun part is that my parents got our first mobile phone in 2002, it was a Nokia 5110. At first we shared it, only getting separate phones a couple of years later. My mom kept the original number, and my dad and I got new ones. Now my parents are long gone, but that number has been in the family for 22 years and it’s been my number for the past 16 years.

Mouse
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2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is why a version of your childhood phone number makes the best pin

Jo Davies
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2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Arnot 245. Last used in 1988

Griffy
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2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I remember the floor plan of every place I lived in, yet don't remember what I did the day before.

Erick L.
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2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah, hope it won't get worse with aging.

Kiersti Cunningham
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2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

699-7904. On a rotary phone, and we lived in the “country” so we had a party line

Ren Hayes
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2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Like so many other GenXers, I use my childhood phone number as my password.

Gin. No tonic
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2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I can still remember my childhood phone number, because it's the same one I still have. It's been 23 years and counting.

Suck it Trebek
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2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes! I use the last four as my pin #.

Tee Rat
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2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It helps that my dad kept this number until 2020 when he passed.

Shannon Hawks
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2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

in the small town i grew up in . We only had to dial the last 4 digits to make a phonecall

Daddy’s Girl
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2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My childhood phone was a party line that started with a word not a number. And you could actually talk to an operator back then.

Kimbowa
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Bewitched One
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2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

463-9155 and 858-2140

Bas
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2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So true. I had never thought about it before but it came back in a flash just after reading this, mine as well as my best pal's one!

Scott Rackley
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2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I still remember my address and phone number from the house I lived at from76 to 84

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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'd like to fuel my car like it's 1999.

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    Chucky Cheezburger
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why can't this be my neighborhood? Those are my peoples...

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    So, Totally Awesome 80s is an Instagram page (Facebook as well) dedicated to celebrating one of the most iconic decades of the last century—the awesome '80s, mixed in with a little bit of the '70s and the '90s.

    The page was created back in mid 2018 and has since then posted nearly 8,000 bits of content and amassed a following of 325,000 people.

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    James016
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I went for Ulysses 31 and Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors when I was a kid.

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    It’s hard to explain what made the '80s such an iconic time period.

    On an objective level, it was the decade that gave the world MTV and CNN, some of the first instances of personal home computing with IBM and Apple, and the first mobile phone, Motorola DynaTAC 8000X.

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    It was also a decade of great tragedy with the NASA’s Space Shuttle Challenger disaster and the explosion of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Reactor #4.

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    malleymac84_1
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I would give anything to have some of this again.

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    ninjaTrashPandaBoom
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So many scars...the rounded bear claw ones were the worst

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    But the thing folks talk about the most is the sound of the '80s—its music scene.

    Many consider the nostalgia that '80s music creates to be the strongest out there with numerous artists coming back to cover popular songs and sounds from the decade.

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    SCamp
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Nobel prize for literature, right there

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    One commenter speculated that the '80s was a careless and fun decade. Considering modern day stresses imposed upon new generations, looking back to a decade whose fashion and music sound carefree, it becomes a nice escape for the younger generations.

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    ninjaTrashPandaBoom
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Taking a break from riding all over the place eating Ding Dongs that came wrapped in aluminum foil, drinking Tang and battling tanks on Atari 2600 before taking off on another adventure!

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    ShyWahine
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    All GEN Xers: Super easy - The Proclaimers / Toto / Nena/ Men At Work

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    There’s also the idea of having parents who listen a lot to '80s music, instilling an interesting sense of nostalgia for their kids as well, even if they didn’t live through it.

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    Kate
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And don't forget, that was supposed to be 3D!

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    Others speculated that it could just be history doing its cyclical thing again. Those who grew up in the '80s are now becoming primary producers of pop culture. Considering all the '80s franchise reboots, Stranger Things and the like, they all come from people who grew up in that era for the people who grew up in that era.

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    Mustafa Kiziroğlu
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    2 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    For non-Americans, that's Parental Guidance content rating.

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    This idea of revivals is further supported by another commenter, who explained that the '70s saw a huge '50s revival with the TV show Happy Days and the movie Grease. Then there was a '60s revival in the '80s with The Doors, The Who, and the like filling entire stadiums. Apply the paradigm far enough and you might just be able to explain why “old” things are hip again.

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    Poppy
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have a photo of my mum who was very visibly pregnant with me smoking a cigarette.

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    Phoenix
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The display of my childhood computer would be a typewriter.

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    ninjaTrashPandaBoom
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    and in the afternoon and in the evening...

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    But that’s just music. Think of the remaining part of pop culture that happened back in the '80s: the Master System, NES. and Atari 7800 all came out in the early part of the decade; Polaroid reached peak popularity during this time; shows like Full House, The Transformers and Duck Tales were huge back then; movies like Back To The Future debuted during the '80s. The list goes on.

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    Phoenix
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    🤣🤣🤣🤣 I get it. Anybody else?

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    ninjaTrashPandaBoom
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Your momma is so stupid/fat/lazy...[insert random offensive insult here]...battle it out, everyone laughs, and we all play dodgeball or G.I. Joe until the street lights came on.

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    martin734
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I remember watching Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet on one of these in our English literature class. Olivia Hussey was hot!

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    Well, that’s that. If you enjoyed this article, we have plenty more where that came from. Well, not there per se, but the '80s! And you can always check out the Instagram page.

    And if you don’t feel like going back in time any more, then why not stay in the present and share your takes and stories in the comment section below!

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    hcaballero57
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    2 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why do I feel like driving a drop top 5.0 Mustang all the sudden?

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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Or a girl and her bike! I loved my bike...the whole neighborhood had bikes and we were outside all day and everyday we could!

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    SCamp
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When it’s a school day but Frankie’s vig’s due and he may need some persuasion

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    ILoveMySon
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Another astounding talent gone before his time.😥

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    Time Magazine: "The Red Brick Road is supposed to lead travellers from Quadling Country to the great Emerald City. However, in the movie, the road is shown ending up at…Munchkin City Hall."

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    Robert Beveridge
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yellow eyes! For the love of god, he had yellow eyes!

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    GoGo LaTata
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I watched Sesame Street before there even was an Elmo... And Oscar was orange!

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    SarCaustic
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The hole in the ozone layer thanks you for your contribution, hair spray.

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    ninjaTrashPandaBoom
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Luuuuke, IIIII ammm yooooourrr fffaaaththtther!

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    beautiful plumage
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    anyone else try to find adult content no matter how scrambled the picture was? you got super excited when you thought you sorta kinda saw something.

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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's a Honda ATC 90. Fun as hell but basically banned after too many people kept dying on them.

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    For those who don't know, the yellow plug carried the video signal and the red and white plugs carried the stereo audio, red for right and white for left.

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    SarCaustic
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Never. Going. To. Give. You. The satisfaction....

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