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Hollywood is ruining the 80s: Hollywood Executives are the locusts of creativity, consuming some of the most brilliant cinematic memories from our childhoods and repackaging what comes out the other end to win over bright-eyed Snapchat users. The reboot-franchise machine is working on overdrive, ruining cult classics and masterpieces alike, from our favorite cartoons (Teenage […]
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Posted inFILM & THEATER IN THE ‘80S
Eddie Murphy owned the 80s’ comedy scene
Eddie Murphy was to comedy in the 1980s what Michael Jackson was to music. This might be hard for some of our younger readers to understand. Eddie Murphy peaked way before the Norbit, the Nutty Professor, and his brief experimentation with trans ladies of the evening. Thirty years ago, Eddie Murphy was the name in […]
Posted inTECH IN THE ‘80S
The videogame revolution
Video games came of age in the ‘80s — and defined the players who themselves came of age wearing neon, watching Miami Vice, cringing at their younger siblings’ Mini Pops albums and (for a mercifully brief period of time) sporting rat-tails. The first honest-to-God computer game launched at the 1940 World’s Fair, according to the […]
Posted inTECH IN THE ‘80S
When the Walkman was a disruptive technology
When music first became portable: Remember how it felt the first time you had a personalized soundtrack to the views you came across every day? Or the thrill of being gifted an amazing mixtape? Sony’s Walkman revolutionized how the world listens to music. “The 1980s could well have been the Walkman decade … Its launch […]
Posted inTECH IN THE ‘80S
In tech, everything old is new again
In tech, everything old is new again — even on the business / finance side: Venture capital was a thing in the 1980s, as we were reminded by the exhaustive Heat Death: Venture Capital in the 1980s. Better still: Long before Y Combinator, Atari’s founder had a tech incubator in our favourite decade, as the […]
Posted inBUSINESS IN THE ‘80S
Beyond the Rubicon: Highly Confident
By Aly El Shalakany When we think of revolutions, we think of protests and a common calling by the masses to radically change things or to replace the political regime altogether. But revolutions can happen in the business world as well and the roaring 1980s saw extreme turbulence on Main Street and Wall Street that […]
Posted inBUSINESS IN THE ‘80S
The only movie worth watching about finance in the ‘80s
There is only one movie to watch about finance in the ‘80s: Wall street. Yes, ladies and gentlemen: Greed is good. There are exactly two books you must read about finance in the ‘80s: Michael Lewis’ Liar’s Poker, the inside story of the dealing rooms at Salomon Brothers in New York and London in the […]
Posted inBUSINESS IN THE ‘80S
Egypt’s 1980s Ponzi schemes
The biggest businesses in Egypt in the 1980s were pyramid schemes. You had the likes of El Rayan, El Saad, and El Sherif offering over 25% “guaranteed returns” on savings in an age when the risk-free rate was closer 9% — and people bought-in en masse. As the market was liberalized, following Sadat’s trade liberalisation […]
Posted inFASHION IN THE ‘80S
Of spandex and shoulder pads: Fashion in the ‘80s
The 1980s were not exactly the heydays of fashion. After all, this was the decade that brought us big poufy hair and oversized earrings, capacious shoulder pads that could easily fit the contents of a woman’s handbag, neon leotards, metallic leather skirts, sequins, feather boas, spandex, and so many other outrageous trends that would need […]
Posted inBOOKS OF THE ‘80S
Books of the 1980s
We’re running out of space — quite literally — so our roundup of Books of the 1980s appears only on the web edition of Enterprise. Tap here to go read it. Regardless of which decade you grew up in, there’s a large chance you came across Shel Silverstein and his inimitable style sometime during your […]