The 1980s was the most awesome decade in living memory, I'm not saying that because I grew up during them and have fond recollections of my childhood. I mean it, objectively. The movies were radical, the music was uplifting and fun, and the toys were classics. TV had passed from its age of innocence and had yet to plunge into the PC and banal depths of today and as such was worth watching. Computers were new on the block and the fashion was.... ok, so I'll concede on that one.
A decade that saw the rise of such Hollywood stalwarts like Schwarzenegger, Stallone, Willis and Ringwald. A decade where four men driving about in a snazzy black van with a red stripe didn't have to have gay overtones. A decade where people were happy with two colours on their computer screen and were entertained for hours by a cube with stickers on it. A decade where to get to number one in the charts you couldn't just add a bass beat to a song from twenty years prior. A decade where you didn't go to the gym to get big shoulders you went to a shop and bought them. 
This site is dedicated to looking back and remembering the fun, the fads, the fashion, the movies, the music, the TV, and the events. So kick back, and enjoy your nostalgic but crude, rude, and slightly irreverent look back at these great times. On this day in the 80s - 04 July
1980 - The luxury liner Leonardo da Vinci burns off the Italian coast.
1981 - John McEnroe defeats Bjorn Borg to win Wimbledon men's title.
1982 - Four Iranian diplomats are kidnapped upon Israel's invasion of Lebanon.
1983 - For the first time since 1941, water pours over the spillways of the Hoover Dam in Nevada.
1984 - Yuri Sedykh of USSR throws hammer a record 86.33 m.
1985 - Ruth Lawrence, 13, achieves a first in mathematics at Oxford University, becoming the youngest British person ever to earn a first-class degree and the youngest known graduate of Oxford University.
1986 - Oscar Zariski, Russian mathematician (b. 1899) dies
1987 - Martina Navratilova won her eighth Wimbledon singles title as she defeated Steffi Graf.
1988 - 102nd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Stefan Edberg beats Becker
1989 - 14 year old actress Drew Barrymore, attempts suicide.
