80s nostalgia

Photo credit: Canva – Cassette tapes next to a boombox. A Gen Z-er is frustrated.

Humor, Joy

Gen X parents challenge their Gen Z kids to put a cassette in a boombox and the struggle is real

Cecily Knobler

6/30/2025
Homeowners celebrate the completion of their new home in Cambodia's Siem Reap Province alongside Habitat for Humanity volunteers and staff.

In Partnership With Habitat For Humanity →

Culture, Family

A safe, stable home can change lives for the better. Here’s how Habitat for Humanity wants to make that possible for everyone.

Sarah Watts

3/25/2026
Photo credit: Canva – An 80s woman holds up a boom box. A 90s woman break dances.

Humor, Joy

Brilliant video argues for 5 iconic Gen X words that are poised for a cultural comeback

Cecily Knobler

6/12/2025
Photo credit: @thedailytay/TikTok – "My anxiety could not have handled the 80s."

Family, Motherhood

Millennial mom is stunned when grandma compares parenting in the 80s to now

Heather Wake

6/3/2025
Photo credit: Images via Canva – A person stares longingly at a 1980s cassette caps

Internet, Pop Culture, Popular

Why so many people say they’d ditch modern day tech to go back to life in the 1980’s

Heather Wake

6/2/2025
Photo credit: Canva Photos & Jason Toney/Flickr – The sound of a dot matrix printer, or the pop of a Snapple bottle — that's what the world used to sound like.

Culture

16 nostalgic sounds only people over 30 will recognize

Evan Porter

5/31/2025
Photo credit: Wikicommons and lakehighlandsadvocate IG – Duran Duran lead singer Simon LeBon poses with a young fan

Culture, Family, Kids, Music, Pop Culture, Popular

Teacher jokingly tells 10-year-old going on a trip to England to ‘find Duran Duran’—and so she kind of does.

Cecily Knobler

5/18/2025
Photo credit: Canva Photos & U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Service – Everyone who came of age in the 80s and 90s remembers rectangle pizza.

Education, Popular, Schools

Behold! The authentic recipe for ’80s school cafeteria rectangle pizza.

Evan Porter

5/7/2025
Photo credit: via Seattle Municipal Archives/Flickr – Memories of childhood get lodged in the brain, emerging when you least expect.

Culture, Joy, Popular

19 super-specific memories all 80s and 90s kids will recognize instantly

Tod Perry

4/24/2025
Photo credit: via Sandra Foyt/Flickr and Reddit – A Farell's sundae and a Pizza Hut lamp.

Community, Joy, Popular

Boomers and Gen Xers recall 17 things they loved in old-school restaurants that are long gone

Tod Perry

4/11/2025
Photo credit: via Wikimedia Commons – Island School Class, circa 1970s.

Humor, Joy, Popular

Parents who grew up in the ’70s and ’80s share the experiences that modern kids can’t believe

Tod Perry

4/8/2025
Photo credit: @tabathalynnk/TikTok, Canva – They've still got the moves

Community, Joy, Popular

Kids asked their parents to ‘dance like it’s the 80s’ and they delivered big time

Heather Wake

1/30/2025
Photo credit: @nostalgicallyrachel/TikTok, @mrvaughntrainor/TikTok – It was a simpler, more life-threatening time.

Family, Parenting, Popular

Awkward home videos from the 80s and 90s show just how far parenting has come

Heather Wake

1/21/2025
Photo credit: Representative Image from Canva – Okay, but everyone DID have big hair. Right?

Internet, Pop Culture, Popular

Adults who lived through the 80s share what pop culture gets wrong about the time period

Heather Wake

12/23/2024
Photo credit: via Docebrown1955/YouTube – David Copperfield vanishes the Statue of Liberty in 1983.

Pop Culture, Popular, Television

In 1983, illusionist David Copperfield made the Statue of Liberty vanish. Here’s how he did it.

Tod Perry

11/20/2024
Photo credit: via Adria Berrocal Forcada/ Unsplash, Daniel Schludi/Unsplash and Sam Dan Truong/Unsplash – Casette tapes, film cameras and landlines were a big part of the pre-2000 world.

Internet, Pop Culture, Popular

Gen Xers are sharing the 15 things that people under 25 will ‘never understand’

Tod Perry

2/27/2024