Southeast High School
Class Of 1988
The 80's
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Top Ten reasons the 80s were a cooler
time to be a teenager than the 90s: |
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10. MTV actually played videos in the 80s.
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9. There was only one kind of Nike tennis shoes (White with a red swoosh)
and they didn't cost $125.00. |
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8. A comb in your back pocket is more practical and less painful than
a ring through your nose. |
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7. In the 80s, playing video games actually meant going out to DO something.
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6. In the 80s, when you were out partying, you didn't have to worry about
your Mom calling you on your cell phone. |
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5. In the 80s we didn't have to worry about getting our heads blown off at school
unless you put a whole pack of Pop Rocks in your mouth and drank a Coke really fast. |
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4. Debbie Gibson vs. Britney Spears. New Kids on the Block vs. N'Sync.
New Edition vs. Hanson. Ok, that one's a draw. |
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3. In the early 80s, there were kids in your high school
who could buy alcohol LEGALLY. |
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2. Feathered hair was easier to care for than dreadlocks.
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And the #1 reason the 80s were a cooler
time to grow up in than the 90s: |
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1. In the 80s you didn't have to worry about your pants falling down all the time.
They were so tight, we couldn't get them off! |
WoW the 80's
- You've ever ended a sentence with the word SIKE.
- You can sing the rap to the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and can do the Carlton
- You know that 'WOAH' comes from Joey on Blossom
- If you ever watched 'Fraggle Rock'
- It was actually worth getting up early on a Saturday to watch cartoons.
- You wore a ponytail on the side of your head.
- You got super-excited when it was Oregon Trail day in computer class at school.
- You made your mom buy one of those clips that would hold your shirt in a knot on the side.
- You wore stonewashed Jordache jean jackets and were proud of it.
- You know the profound meaning of ' WAX ON , WAX OFF'
- You wanted to be a Goonie.
- You ever wore fluorescent clothing
- You can remember what Michael Jackson looked like before his nose fell off and his cheeks shifted.
- You have ever pondered why Smurfette was the only female smurf.
- You took lunch boxes to school...and traded Garbage Pailkids in the schoolyard.
- You still get the urge to say 'NOT' after every sentence.
- You thought your childhood friends would never leave because you exchanged handmade friendship bracelets.
- You ever owned a pair of Jelly-Shoes.
- After you saw Pee-Wee's Big Adventure you kept saying 'I know you are, but what am I?'
- You remember 'I've fallen and I can't get up'
- You remember going to the skating rink before there were inline skates.
- You have ever played with a Skip-It.
- You remember boom boxes and walking around with one on your shoulder like you were all that.
- You remember watching both Gremlins movies.
- You thought Doogie Howser/Samantha Micelli was hot.
- You remember Alf, the lil furry brown alien from Melmac.
- You remember New Kids on the Block when they were cool...and don't even flinch when people refer to them as 'NKOTB'
- You knew all the characters names and their life stories on 'Saved By The Bell,' The ORIGINAL class.
- You know all the words to Bon Jovi - SHOT THROUGH THE HEART.
- You just sang those words to yourself.
- You still sing 'We are the World'
- You tight rolled your jeans.
- You owned a bannana clip.
- You remember 'Where's the Beef?'
- You used to (and probably still do) say 'What you talkin' 'bout Willis?'
- You're still singing shot through the heart in your head, aren't you!
1988 vs. 2008
Think the iPhone is pricey? The cool cell phone of 1988 cost $4,382 in today's dollars. A 150MB hard drive? $8,755. Take a trip with us down memory lane and you'll never whine about the price of a gadget again.
It's easy to forgive your Tandy desktop or your Motorola portable for their limitations -- after all, they were technological infants.
What we often forget, though, is how expensive that crude neolithic junk was! So join us on a trip two decades back in technology's history -- and we bet that the next time you're charged $895 for a small square of plastic and transistors, you'll smile and say, "Wow, what a bargain!"
- Price: $1,400 ($2,454 adjusted for inflation)
- CPU: Intel 80286
- RAM: 640KB
- Storage: 3.5-inch floppy
- Monitor: 14-inch, 640-by-200 RGB CRT, 16 colors
- Price: about $1,000
- CPU: 2.8-GHz AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600+ dual-core
- RAM: 2GB
- Storage: 750GB HD, CD/DVD recorder
- Monitor: 17-inch, 1440-by-900 LCD, 16.7 million colors
- Price: $4,098 ($7,182 adjusted for inflation)
- CPU: 4.77-/9.54-MHz Intel 80C86
- RAM: 1MB
- Storage: 20MB hard drive, 720KB floppy drive
- Display: 9.4-inch supertwist LCD
- Weight: 14 pounds (including modem, charger, and case)
- Battery life: 2 hours
- Price: $1,724
- CPU: 2-GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T7300
- RAM: 2GB
- Storage: 160GB HD, PC Card slot, SD Card slot, external CD/DVD recorder
- Display: 12.1-inch 1024-by-768 LCD, 16.7 million colors
- Weight: 3.6 pounds (6.1 pounds including adapter, ultrabase, and DVD burner)
- Battery life: 6 hours
- Price: $995 ($1,744 adjusted for inflation)
- Printhead: 24-pin color dot-matrix
- Speed: 31 seconds/page in letter-quality mode, up to 10 minutes/page for color graphics
- Interface: Serial
- Price: $80
- Printhead: 4800-by-1200-dpi color, 1,600 nozzles
- Speed: as fast as 3.5 seconds/page in color
- Interface: USB 2.0 and PictBridge
- Price: $6.00 to $47.50 per hour ($11 to $83 adjusted for inflation)
- Connection: dial-up
- Speed: 300 to 9,600 baud
- Services: 400 databases, covering news, shopping, finance and the like; 140 discussion groups, e-mail
- Price: $35 per month
- Connection: Digital Subscriber Line
- Speed: 6 mbps
- Services: nearly anything you can imagine
- Price: $2,500 ($4,382 adjusted for inflation)
- Technology: analog
- Weight: 28 ounces
- Talk time: one hour
- Price: $399 (with two-year service agreement)
- Technology: EDGE/GSM quad-band
- Weight: 5 ounces
- Talk time: eight hours
- Price: $3,000 ($5,258 adjusted for inflation)
- Size: 35 inches
- Resolution: 480 lines, interlaced
- Format: NTSC
- Display technology: CRT
- Price: $2,300
- Size: 50 inches
- Resolution: 1080 lines, progressive scan
- Format: ATSC
- Display technology: plasma
- Price: $1,427 ($2,278 adjusted for inflation)
- Resolution: 420-line
- Output: composite
- Media supported: Laserdisc, CD-audio, CD-video
- Price: $500
- Resolution: 1080-line
- Output: HDMI
- Media supported: Blu-ray 1.1, DVD (with upscaling), CD
- Price: $350 ($613 adjusted for inflation)
- Format: CD-audio
- Capacity: 650MB or 70 minutes
- Batterylife: 4 hours
- Weight: 14 ounces
- Price: $299
- Formats: AAC/MP3/AIFF/WAV/ lossless audio
- Capacity: 8GB or 87 hours
- Batterylife: 22 hours of audio or 5 hours video
- Weight: 4.2 ounces
- Price: $200 ($351 adjusted for inflation)
- CPU: 1.79-MHz 8-bit
- RAM: 2KB
- Game format: cartridge
- Price: $399
- CPU: 3.2-GHz cell
- RAM: 256MB
- Game format: optical- and hard-disk-based games with Internet connectivity
1988 Facts
Economy
President:
Ronald W. Reagan
Vice President:
George Bush
Population: 244,498,982
Life expectancy:
74.9 years
Dow-Jones
High:
2,183
Low:
1,879
Federal spending: $1064.14 billion
Federal debt:
$2601.3 billion
Inflation:
4.7%
Consumer Price Index:
118.3
Unemployment:
6.2%
Prices
Cost of a new home:
$138,300.00
Cost of a new car:
$14,065
Median Household Income:
$27,225.00
Cost of a first-class stamp:
$0.22 ($0.25 as of 4/3/88)
Cost of a gallon of regular gas:
$1.08
Cost of a dozen eggs:
$0.89
Cost of a gallon of Milk:
$2.30
Music
Top 10 Singles
Top Ten Albums
TV & Movies
TV Favorites
Top Ten Grossing Movies
Sports
Football
Basketball
Baseball
Winner: LA DODGERS 4-1 (WWLWW) - Coach: Tommy Lasorda
Opposing Team: Oakland A's - Coach: Tony La Russa
MVP: Kirk Gibson, LA - OF
Rookie of the Year: Chris Sabo, Cin - C
Rookie of the Year: Walt Weiss, Oak - SS