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What were you doing in 1983?


I didn't exist then.

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Working at a desk job.

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A computer that looks like this: https://images.app.goo.gl/aSqayrynVuDD621LA

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Most of the work was still paper based with microfiche as well. There was an early computer there but I didn't use it.

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I was busy being a year old.

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I have this sudden urge to pinch you on the cheek.

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Enjoying my 80s free range childhood.

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Ha, love this answer! Me too.

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Same here. Had to be home when the street lights came on.

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same here, but that was half hour after school at 16:00 in the winter :(

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Damn you got out of school late!

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I had to come home when the street lights came on also. Sometimes it didn't work out that way. Hah-hah.

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Senior year of high school

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Second year of University and having premarital sex as much as possible.

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Hawt! Right around the HIV/AIDS scare.

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There was no HIV/AIDS "scare" in 1983. Back then, AIDs was still seen as this isolated thing that was only happening to a tiny fraction of the population (gay men). HIV as a term didn't exist then, either, because no one who was infected lived long enough to have any kind of pre-AIDs status that could be given its own name. You simply "caught AIDs".

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In 1981 is when the CDC recognized it. But you're right.

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Was "VD" the popular term back then?

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I vaguely recall that "VD" had pretty much started becoming a dated term in the 1980s (people preferred to use "hipper" slang referring to specific diseases, such as "The clap" or "Crabs."). But yes, that's what STDs used to be called.

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that came a few years later.

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You were a player with the ladies back in day, hownos?

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i did ok. i was married at 28

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Also not existing.

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I was in the USMC

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Does that stand for "United States Military Corps"?

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šŸ‘

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Crawling around on all fours. I still do that sometimes in my basement.

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Why just the basement lol?

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Because it's a special place where special things happen. You can always come over and see for yourself.šŸ˜˜

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Awesome!We can race each other on hands and knees. I still hold the record at my old preschool.

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My whip and I will make sure you're gonna beat that personal record!

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Yipes! Sounds fun. Iā€™m there.

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See you Friday night!šŸ˜˜

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Sounds good. Ill start walking in a random direction after work on Friday in a standard military search pattern looking for your place. I figure I can cover a square mile a day, so depending on how far you are from the Chicago area in the US, it could take a while.

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Just follow the long line of people leading to my front door. You better bring along your inflatable armbands because you probably have to cross a few bodies of water. I'm sure you'll find your way to my basement eventually. Good luck!šŸ¤ž

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Sounds like the basement scene from "Pulp Fiction"! Is there a gimp?

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If you bring your own ball gag, you can be the gimp.šŸ˜˜

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SHITTING MY PANTS AND MISSING BOOB MILK...I WAS TWO.

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