The young men and ladies who are attending college were born in the early 80's.

* They have no meaningful recollection of the Reagan era.
* They were prepubescent when the Persian Gulf War was waged.
* Black Monday 1987 is as significant to them as the Great Depression.
* Their world has always included AIDS.
* Atari predates them, as do vinyl albums and cassette audio tapes; they may have heard
    of an  8-track, but probably never actually seen (or heard) one.
* The digital Disc was presented to Wall Street when they were 1 year old.
* From their earliest years, a camera was something you used once and threw away.
* As far as they know, stamps have always cost about 32 cents or so.
* Few, if any, have lived without an answering machine.
* Few have used a TV set with only 13 channels.
* Some use the word "clickers" for "remote control", yet they do not know why they say it.
* They were born the year that Walkmen were introduced by Sony.
* The expression "you sound like a broken record" means nothing to them.

* You wore anything Izod, especially those windbreakers that folded up into a pouch
    you could wear around your waist.
* You owned a Jordache anything, or you remember when Jordache jeans were cool.
* You remember LeFreak by Chic
* In your sophomore class picture, you're wearing an Izod shirt with the collar "up."
* "All-skate, change directions" means something to you.
* In high school, you and all your friends discussed elaborate plans to get together
    again at the end of the century and play "1999" by Prince over and over again.
* You rode in the back of the station wagon and you faced the cars behind you
    in the "tail gunner" position.
* Schoolhouse Rock played a HUGE part in how you actually learned the English language.
* You ever dressed to emulate a person you saw in either a Duran Duran, Madonna,
    Rick Springfield, or Cyndi Lauper video.
* You actually know who Rick Springfield is.
* You're starting to believe (now that it wouldn't affect YOU) that maybe having
    the kids go to school year-round wouldn't be such a bad idea after all.
* You ever wanted to be gagged with a spoon
* You know who Bo and Luke Duke are.
* There was nothing strange about Bert n' Ernie living together.
* You learned to swim about the same time Jaws came out and still carry
    the emotional scars to this day.
* You ever wanted to learn to play "Stairway to Heaven" on the guitar
* You were afraid of the Sleestaks on "Land of the Lost."
* You ever used the phrase "kiss mah grits" in conversation.
* You had ringside seats for Luke and Laura's wedding
* You know who shot J.R.
* This rings a bell: "and my name is Charlie. They work for me."
* You sat with your friends on a Friday night and dialed "8-6-7-5-3-0-9"
    to see if Jenny would answer.
* You owned a pair of Rainbow suspenders just like Mork used to wear.
* You remember when your cable TV box had the three rows of numbers and you
    had to move the selector switch accordingly.
* You could sing "99 Red Balloons" in English and in German.
* Feathered hair
* Your jaw would ache by the time you finished those "brick-sized" packages of Bazooka gum.
* The phrase "Where's the beef?" still doubles you over with laughter.
* The Brady Bunch movie brought back cool memories
* You ever rang someone's doorbell and said "Landshark!"
* Three words: Atari, IntelliVision and Coleco, sound familiar (and Tandy)
* You remember the days when "safe sex" meant that your parents were gone for the weekend
* You remember Friday Night Videos before the days of MTV
* A predominant color in your childhood photos is plaid (or stripes in several directions)
* You remember when music that was labeled alternative, really was
* You took family trips BEFORE the invention of the minivan
* You've ever conversationally used the phrase, "Jane, you ignorant slut!"
* You watched HR Puffenstuff as a child, but now that you're older, you really
    understand that it would have been much better had you known about drugs at the time
* You've recently horrified yourself by using any one of the following phrases:
        When I was younger...
        When I was your age...
        You know, back when...
* You're starting to view getting carded to buy alcohol as a GOOD thing
* You can guess the episode of the Brady Bunch from the first scene
* You remember, "Hey, let's be careful out there."
* You were unsure if Diet Coke would ever catch on after all.
* You know all the words to the double album set of Grease
* You were too young to go see the Blue Lagoon so you just had to settle for second hand reports
* You remember when there was only PG and R none of this PG-13 crap
* You actually believed everything Leonard Nimoy told you on "In Search Of..."
* Your jaw would ache by the time you finished those brick sized packages of Bazooka gum
* VCRs cost $2,000
* Rotary dial telephones
* You actually believed that Mikey, famed for his Life cereal commercials,
    died after eating a packet of pop rocks and drinking a Coke
*The theme song to Greatest American Hero still comes back to you on occasion