Back to the Future, Time Travel, and the Secret History of the 1980s

Re:Back to the Future, Time Travel, and the Secret History o... by delecti on Friday January 16, 2015 @07:50PM (#8902806)

Well, my point was more that "of course we think the 80s were significant because that's when so many of us were born", and less a discussion on the meaning of "opinion".

If some of the older posters (40-60 rather than 20-30) were to post a similar sentiment about the 80s then it would say more.

Edit: Alternatively, I'm very likely just projecting my age range on some posters who are in that age range, but them chiming up to confirm that fact would be helpful.

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Re:Back to the Future, Time Travel, and the Secret History o... by randallsquared on Saturday January 17, 2015 @12:00PM (#8904754)

People who are in their 40s now were teens and young adults in the 80s, and are therefore likely to agree that that decade was significant, and I can understand that (I'm 41).

Let me try to give a different perspective, though: Modern times seems to me to have started about when The Matrix came out and Google came along. It's truly amazing to me that we managed to get along without immediate and virtually unlimited access to any information about anything. Being able to just look things up completely changed my life. The internet was qualitatively enormously different when the best search engine was Altavista and most of my time was spent on IRC and Usenet.

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Re:Back to the Future, Time Travel, and the Secret History o... by mordechai9000 on Saturday January 17, 2015 @11:31AM (#8904647)

I was born in the 70s, and I feel my whole decade was left out of your age range.

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