Every generation has an invention that their kids won’t believe they once lived without. I think that my future children will be shocked to learn that iPhones and iPads were introduced when I was in elementary school. I remember a kid in my 4th-grade class talking about getting an iPad and thinking it was the …
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25 Throwback 80s Memes for Retro Fiends
What a decade the 1980s were. Many would argue that a lot of the attitudes and beliefs that got established by the current events from back then still inform the world that we live in today, but in a lot of ways, times were very different, no matter how many 80s kids keep bringing the …
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32 Gen Xers Share Their Hot Takes Only ’80s Kids Would Understand: ‘Perhaps this will get me kicked out of our awesome generation’
Pop culture has changed immensely over the years. How did we get from the era of mixtapes, Walkmans, and acid-washed jeans to TikTok, online dating, and artificial intelligence? Kids today will never know how good it was to grow up as a member of Gen X. Times were simpler: parents weren’t constantly tracking your location, …
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80s Music Memes for Gen Xers Rocking Out to the Oldies Station
When I was in high school, I was literally addicted to the 80s radio station. Even though I was birthed into this world at the tail-end of the 1990s, these songs defined my teenage years. One of the most intriguing moments of my 98.7 KLUV era was when my sister and I discovered that our …
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Millennials discuss why boomers are still living in a 1980s economic mindset: ‘My dad said «You are earning 6 figures and can’t afford $500 for a vacation?»‘
It isn’t easy to accept that everything is getting demonstrably more expensive. We used to think of inflation as a gradual process: our grandparents talked about how hamburgers used to be 50 cents, and as the decades marched on, they gradually started costing upwards of $15 if you wanted a good one. The inflation in …
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28 Nostalgic Companies Gen X Kids Wish Would Make a Comeback
We all have fond memories of things from our childhood that are totally obsolete today. Whether it be the toys we played with as a kid, the video games we challenged our siblings in, or the stores we used to shop at. We totally forget about a lot of those things until we come across …
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Funny Generation X Memes For Members of The Forgotten Generation
I recently discovered something I would have never known unless a Gen Xer told me. Apparently, the way that I watched Daria on Hulu was not how it was initially aired. In the 90s, the show wasn’t punctuated by the guitar riffs from the theme song but had tons of 90s hits courtesy of MTV. …
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20+ Back to the Future Memes That Do Justice to Doc Brown
Most of us know Back to the Future as the series of mega-hit movies that many couldn’t imagine the 1980s without, but the first film almost didn’t get made. Co-creator Bob Gale once revealed that studios rejected the script more than 40 times before it finally got off the ground. It’s a darn good thing …
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30+ Gen X Memes For Xoomers and Xennials
Gen X is a pretty exclusive generational club. It’s no wonder many stragglers who are technically baby boomers or millennials want to be a part of what Gen X offers. Take my parents, for instance. They were born in 1962 and 1963 and don’t want to be aligned with being baby boomers. I mean, who …
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20+ Labyrinth Memes That Do the Magic Dance With the Goblin King
When it comes to 80s kid’s movies with a dedicated cult following, Labyrinth (1986) has to be somewhere near the top of the list. It boasts countless reasons for being iconic, and not all of them revolve around the suspect choices made by the wardrobe department for David Bowie’s character. The soundtrack bangs, it’s full …
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