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 - 11 October
1980 - The Russian spacecraft Salyut 6 finally returns safely to earth after its crew have been in space for a record 185 days.
1981 - Unknown rocker Prince opens for Rolling Stones at LA Coliseum.
1982 - The Mary Rose, flagship of Henry VIII of England that sank in 1545, is raised.
1983 - Last hand-cranked telephones U.S. went out of service as 440 telephone customers in Bryant Pond, Maine, were switched over to direct-dial.
1984 - Aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first American woman to perform a space walk.
1985 - President Reagan bans importation of South African Krugerrands
1986 - Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Reykjavik, Iceland, to continue discussions about scaling back their intermediate missile arsenals in Europe
1987 - Peter Tosh, Jamaican musician and singer murdered.
1988 - Women are allowed to study at Magdalene College, Cambridge, for the first time. Male students wear black armbands and the porter flies a black flag.
1989 - Michelle Wie, American golfer born.
