Lookback Fic Bingo: 1981
Dec. 3rd, 2025 10:05 pmIt's 1981. Journey is on the radio. (In a sign of the times, their "Don't Stop Believin'" is the first song I've featured that didn't have a music video.) Here in the USA, the year's top film is Raiders of the Lost Ark. New terms coined include: boom box, canola oil, gateway drug, graphical user interface, infomercial, phone card, snowboard, spellchecker, spreadsheet, and technobabble.
For 1981, I read four fics: one Professionals, one Star Trek, one Star Wars, and one Starsky & Hutch.
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