I was there and they weren't.

Much better times today, imo.

I was a kid and there were Tron, Star Wars, video games, personal computing, hacking culture, etc. Those defined new things and point of views.

Sure we had thermonuclear war threats and a bit of AIDS. But that was basically all.

But as far as my craft is concerned (coding) there's no question about it, everything is so much easier now !