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[SlipperyMoose]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=c7pqPpa3qiM
http://www.theatlantic.com/technolo...ns-technologies-introduced-after-1986/279496/

Meet the McMillans. They're like a lot of families -- young, unmarried, with two kids, a boy and a girl -- with one notable exception: They live every day like it's 1986. Not in some vague, listen-to-The Bangles-and-wear-some-Spandex kind of way, but in a manner that is deliberate and drastic and all-encompassing. The McMillans, at home, have given up all technology that was introduced to the world after 1986.

Yes, N.E.S. is shown.

 

[cheststrongwell]

They will never get to see the best Indiana Jones. Fucked up.

Oh, only for a year. Not so bad.

 

[MarkusRJR]

Well that's pointless. Reminds me of that Verge employee that stopped using the internet for a year and is writing a book on the experience (lol). Straight up attention seekers.

 

[Fantasmo]

Conan just did a joke about this, like 4 seconds ago.

 

[Sobriquet]

This is awesome! The mullets really make it work.

edit: WTF that guy was born in 1986? He looks way older.

 

[Rhomega Beta]

I was born in '86, just three weeks after Challenger exploded. While I've fantasized about time traveling back to the '80s and living that life, this isn't exactly what I had in mind. Also, does this sort of limit apply to culture? CD players are still available, but can I buy Daft Punk's Random Access Memories, or do I have to listen to Michael Jackson's Thriller instead?

Earlier this year, Blair McMillan says, he was hanging out outside the house, and he asked his 5-year-old son Trey to join him. Trey refused. He was too busy with his iPad.

“That’s kind of when it hit me," Blair tells the Sun, "because I’m like, wow, when I was a kid, I lived outside."

This kind of attitude frustrates me. I was born and raised on sci-fi like The Jetsons, Star Trek, and Star Wars, as did a lot of other people. We dreamed of what life would be like the year 2000. Yet now that we're here in the future, you reject it and want your childhood back? What the heck happened? Is it because the reality didn't meet your fantasy? Touchscreen interfaces and tablets are the sort of things I saw and dreamed of as a kid, and while I don't own a tablet (and I'm LTTP on smartphones), I embrace this technology, instead of wanting to go back to learning BASIC and going to an office working on a computer using DOS and 5 1/2 inch floppies. I promised myself I would never be like that. So why do I want to live in the '80s, and even relive the '90s? It's not about nostalgia, it's about finding out what I missed out on as a kid because I was too young to appreciate it.

 

[TheRedMan]

No way their kids would agree to this if they were older.

 

[Sobriquet]

I was born in '86, just three weeks after Challenger exploded. While I've fantasized about time traveling back to the '80s and living that life, this isn't exactly what I had in mind. Also, does this sort of limit apply to culture? CD players are still available, but can I buy Daft Punk's Random Access Memories, or do I have to listen to Michael Jackson's Thriller instead?

CD players are pushing it. I know they were available, but not many people had one at that point.