These 10 Totally Rad Moments From The 80’s Will Restore Your Faith In The Total Radness Of The 80’s

Do you like things that are Rad? Do you feel nostalgia for an era that, playing the odds with our demographics, you probably didn’t live through? Click! Like! Share!

The 1780’s, that is.

1. Throwing a killer dance party to celebrate America’s victory over the British in the Revolutionary War (1781):

2. Getting detention for reading What is the Third Estate? in French high school…and finding yourself in the process (1789):

3. Fighting Russian aggression in the Russo-Turkish War (1787):

4. Mozart, live in concert, jamming on the state-of-the-art fortepiano:

5. Storming the Bastille…and burning that mother to the ground (1789):

6. Riding with the calvary in the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War (1780):

7. Sir William Herschel discovering the planet Uranus (1781):

8. Reading Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason for the first time, and getting your mind totally blown (1781):

9. Benjamin Franklin inventing bifocals (1784), changing the history of eyewear forever:

10. Crimped hair, leggings, giant pointless belts, chunky necklaces, faux fur, jackets worn indoors as a fashion statement:

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