- the Beatles and the Rolling Stones were just getting started …assassination of John F. Kennedy…Viet Nam…the hippie movement…getting into Creepy animated cartoon books…can’t stand them now…just some info…
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I was born in January 1970. My teen years were in the 80’s and in the 90’s I was in my twenties. Had a hard time after I got sick in ‘93.
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Spring, 1969- Moon landing soon to happen. Vietnam War drags on. Nixon is President. Watergate’s yet to happen. Protests are common. Lots of fear and hope about future. Most women are still housewives; no pc’s, cellphones, smartphones, and deliveries are done with catalogs. Newspapers and magazines are still important but TV is gaining prominence. 4 channels on TV, TVs end broadcasting around midnight or sooner, All radio is AM. Record players the only other way to play music. Beatles still together though not for much longer, Woodstock coming soon, Doctors were very concerned because we are 2 months premature, there are multiple heartbeats, but they didn’t know our gender or how many there would be and attempts were made to prolong labor to improve chances of survival. Mom came into contact with flu on Christmas when Dad had it. I doubt they were concerned about that. Most schizophrenics are in asylums like my Dad’s brother will soon be. My brother is having trouble breathing and is put in incubator for a few hours. I am “healthy” but we stay in the hospital for 3 weeks to adjust to being premature. (today my twin is doing well in life with a wife and 3 kids. I am alone in disability housing) Cards congratulating our birth vary from having twins written over the original card, a baby boy, to twins. Me and my twin combined will weigh less at birth than my younger brother did. With my Dad working as a college teacher, and my Mom retiring from teaching 6th grade to raise us the future looks bright indeed.
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Simpler times in a lot of ways - 1964
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Another 1970- July. I cut my teeth on 60’s/70’s music but discovered punk early. Have had a passion for punk/indie music since then although independant music isn’t what it was back then. Politically left. We had some severe right wing governments back then over here and voted left ever since!
God Save The Queen!
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1961 Ditto. When Gumby and Pokey were kings.
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I was born in 1978…perfect time to grow up with the original Nintendo.
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I was born in 1980. Kind of a lame/bizarre era. Right on the tail end of the 70’s too. I often feel like I have the soul of a hippy or lost, 70’s kid. I love the Doors. I love punk like @rogueone. I love old metal. I can’t stand a lot of modern music.
The 80’s were just a weird era. Almost everyone was burnt out on crappy drugs. Free love officially died. Everyone just wanted to be rich, or at least pretend they were.
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The year I graduated high school.
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- Ten years before Apartheid ended in South Africa. I was of privileged (white) class and was too young to really understand it but it was an important time for our country when it ended.
Today our country has a new president Cyril Ramaphosa. Hope things get better.
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1954 Eisenhower was president. The interstate highway system has not been started yet. The Korean war ended the year before. I was the result of the welcome home party.
I grew up in the time of the free range kids.
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95’. Hip hop was booming they just released the n64 and toy story was released. And they had the special edition star wars on vhs
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Nelson Mandela was released from prison, the Berlin Wall was torn down, and the Hubble telescope was placed into orbit.
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I wrote a speech for class about this some years ago. I’m using that to recall and tell you what happened in 1981. I was born in an era of emergence and destruction, with technological advances and music television, war and terrorism and first discoveries and events of all kind. Like life the year of my birth was filled with both good and bad events. For instance, Columbia, the first reusable spaceship in the world flew into outer space. Sadly, AIDS was first recognized as a disease in 1981. Again, unfortunately, terrorism takes on a new meaning with the first suicide bombing. On a brighter note, MTV first aired and the first IBM computer was sold in the US. The first song ever shown on MTV was “Video Killed the Radio Star” by The Buggles.
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'91. 2 days before The Soviet Union fell apart.
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- The country I was born in was just coming out of a civil war.
I grew up listening to backstreet boys 
and Spice Girls 
I got ill in 2010-11.
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- Captain Kangaroo. Beatniks. The Beatles. The Rolling Stones. The Temptations. Vietnam. The hippie movement. Black and white television. Polaroid cameras. NBC, ABC, CBS television networks. Walter Cronkite, news anchor, Man From UNCLE, T.V. show, Daniel Boone, T.V. show.
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My friend and I saw this in about 1993. It was his idea but I went along with it. The audience was about 85% 8-14 year old girls, lol. Kind of embarrassed to be there.
The Spice Girls were top-selling artists but they were often the punchline to many jokes and kind of looked down on and made fun of by other musicians or other fans of genres like hard rock or metal. But man, I always liked them, not just for their looks and the way they dressed but their songs were just really, really, catchy and their voices were just really good.
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1983…nothing exciting comes to mind other than the cold mobile home and my beloved cat Shippy.
- I loved being a kid in the 90,s but nothing really comes to mind. Just the world seemed a safer happier place in the 80’s and 90’s here.