▸ the year you arrived
1989
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You will be 37 this year — a child of the '80s.
The song that ruled the year you arrived
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Top of your year, by vibe
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Top 10 of 1989
Your stats
Your generation
Millennial
1989 belonged to
Bobby Brown
5 year-end chart hits
🔙 The world you were born into
The world around the music — what was on screen, and what was on the shelf.
🎬 Set the scene
Back in 1989, the day could start with Voltron, drift into a bag of Cool Ranch Doritos, and end with you about to wander the mall food court with nowhere to be.
📼 Saturday cartoons
- He-Man and the Masters of the Universe👕 tee →
- ThunderCats👕 tee →
- G.I. Joe👕 tee →
- The Smurfs👕 tee →
- Garfield and Friends
- The Real Ghostbusters👕 tee →
- DuckTales👕 tee →
- Inspector Gadget
- Voltron👕 tee →
- Muppet Babies
📰 Headlines
- Berlin Wall falls (Nov 9)
- Exxon Valdez oil spill
- Tiananmen Square crackdown
- US invades Panama
- Loma Prieta earthquake
💡 Tech & Firsts
- Game Boy launches in US (July 31)
- Sega Genesis launches in US
- Tim Berners-Lee proposes the Web
- Nintendo bundles Tetris
- SimCity released
🏆 Sports
- A's win the World Series (quake series)
- Pistons win the NBA title
- 49ers win Super Bowl XXIII
- Flames win the Stanley Cup
- Michigan wins the NCAA title
🤪 Crazes & fads
- Game Boy / Tetris craze
- Batman merchandise mania
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Nintendo Power Glove
- New Kids on the Block fever
👖 Clothes
- Acid-wash jeans peak
- Hammer / parachute pants
- Bike shorts
- Neon windbreakers
- Hypercolor shirts emerge
💵 What it cost
- Gas: $1.02/gal
- Stamp: 25¢
- Movie ticket: ~$4.45
- New car avg: ~$14,400
- Median home: ~$93,100
🧸 Toy chest
🍬 On the shelf
How well do you remember 1989?
7 quick questions — the songs, the artists, the year. No cheating. 😏
💬 Memories from 1989
“Every school dance ended with something like this. Slow-dancing at arm's length in a sweaty gym, both of you pretending you knew what you were doing. Terrifying and perfect.”
— Anonymouson this song →“Power ballad, last dance, the lights down low in the gym. At the time I was certain slow dances were the highest-stakes event in human history. Maybe they were.”
— Anonymouson this song →
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