"80s" Blogs & Blog Posts

Lego Ideas, where creators can submit their own creations for consideration to become a real Lego set, is running an "If We Could Turn Back Time" 80s contest. There are five iconic 80s sets to vote on. First up is Gizmo from Gremlins, who comes with...

I wish I were the proud owner of these Cabbage Patch doll earmuffs. The product featured two flattened, cloth cabbage patch doll faces (one for each ear) on a headband.  The amazing thing about this product is that the wearer was able to stay wa...

A fashion historian told Business Insider there's evidence even Queen Elizabeth I was a fan of shoulder pads.

Virtual Consoles recreates the 80s experience of turning on a computer and instantly getting a BASIC interpreter: the perfect environment to learn coding or just poke computers into doing odd and fun things. There's a Commodore 64, a ZX Spectrum, an...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by totally 80's room (@totally80sroom) As I was born in 1988, I didn't experience the rise of the Coreys. It was only through watching tons of microfilm and reading periodicals that I could...

A Youtube video titled "THE MOST BORING VIDEO EVER MADE (Microsoft Word tutorial, 1989) has accrued over 1.5 million views despite its self-proclaimed boringness. The video, an hour and forty-seven-minute computer tutorial, appears to have been recor...

Synthwave artist Atomic Ghost just released a brand new LP called Teenage Romance and folks, it is god damn delightful: an instrumental concept album that uses an orgy of synth sounds to recreate the archetypal epic experience of every teen movie eve...