The 80s seemed to be an interesting time.  The LA Lakers dominated the NBA scene, Ronald Regan was president and after him George Bush Senior took office.  Music videos came to dominate the music industry and MTV took off.  Metallica debuted and tried to go against all the trends already established by hair bands such as Motley Crue, White Snake, and Poison.  The last two movies of the original Star Wars trilogy came out along with the Indiana Jones trilogy.  Much of what our popular culture is based on, even twenty years later, comes from the 1980s.  I was born in 1981.  Most of the 80s to me are one huge blur since I was too young to really pay much attention to anything other most of the highlights.  If anything, I’m more of a product of the 1990s, though they weren’t as defined a time as the 80s.  They were more cynical, as seen as by the fact that people in the 90s would look back on the 80s and laugh.  But you have to consider how ridiculous things look out of context ten years later.  For example, how foolish do some of the early 1990s trends seem now that we’re almost into yet another new decade in 2010?