"80s" Blogs & Blog Posts

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...

Billy Ocean's Loverboy is a solid '80s bop. When you recall that the lyrics didn't get too much deeper than "Want to be your lover lover/Want to be your lover lover lover boy/Lover lover, yeah/Want to be your lover lover lover boy," you might assume...