1980s

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The 1980s was a decade when several IndieWeb community members were born and when a particularly colorful aesthetic was popularized that has subsequently seen adoption in nostalgia contexts, like the Homebrew Website Club logo.

There’s a lot of web/technology history that began in the 1980s. For such general (not indieweb-specific) web/tech history, please see (and add to) respective Wikipedia articles.

IndieWeb Examples

Aaron Parecki

• Aaron Parecki was born in the 80s

Kimberly Hirsh

• Kimberly Hirsh was born in the 80s

Matt Lee

• Dr. Matt Lee was born in the 1980s.

Homebrew Website Club logo

Design Examples

VHS tapes

VHS tapes and their sleeves had a particular aesthetic design in the 1980s that captured the imagination, especially in retrospect and has inspired similar designs for modern products, services, and events!

• 2016-07-26 FastCompany: Goodbye, VHS: A Visual Ode To A Disappearing Format / How many of these tapes did you own? What memories do they bring back?
• 2018-08-06 From Ignored Ubiquity to Design Classic: the Art of the Blank VHS Tape

Wikipedia articles

Wikipedia articles on the 1980s and broader web/technology related history:

• Wikipedia:History_of_the_World_Wide_Web#1989–1991:_Origins
• Wikipedia:National_Science_Foundation_Network
• Wikipedia:Minitel
• Wikipedia:Internet_service_provider#History
• Wikipedia:Free_Software_Foundation#History

Please see and add general web and technology history to these articles rather than this IndieWeb wiki page.

See Also

• timeline
• history
• 1990s