Please share your stories about living during the 1980s. I’m increasingly fascinated with this decade and would love to read some firsthand accounts.
<span style=“text-decoration: underline;”>Some food for thought</span>:
(I will add more to this list over time.)
1. What was being an 80s Star Wars fan like?
2. Were you tech-savvy? If so, were you an audiophile, a videophile, a computing enthusiast/programmer, …?
3. Which technological developments excited you? Which didn’t excite you? What did you think was coming soon, but was actually far off?
4. Did you participate in the early home video revolution? If so, how did you, for instance, obtain all of the episodes of Star Trek (TOS)?
Please don’t just reply to this list. Write stories!
being a star wars or sci-fi fan in the 80s was good and bad good because we got to see these cult classic movies first hand but bad because it took so long to make a follow up if they ever got one and the star wars trilogy died a slow death jedi was lets be honest crap the skywalker saga could and should have went on with luke and his journey but alas
as for being tech savy our tech was limited to budget home vhs or beta max was as tech savy as some people got then personal stereo’s mix tapes c.d’s trying to copy video tapes we all did it then the home entertainment system boom nintendo sega atari
i much prefer now we can do all the stuff we wanted to do in the 80s with a computer music movies games create copy produce