1980s Era

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**1980s Era** also known as ***1980s Earth*** was a universal Era that was known as part of the Void of Timelines, that was created from the end of both the 1970s Era and Culture, that was most notorious for the darkest and almost deadly aspects of the entire Cold War era at the time of Universal History.

Despite the 80s containing multiple dark spots in universal history, the Culture of the Era was praised as a glorious era, by most people throughout 80s Earth, leading to the Culture lasting up until 1992 when the 1980s ended completely, however a DNA disaster that occurred due to 1990s would almost lead to the destruction of the Early 90s beings due to 1990s merging her DNA into the early 90s beings, leading to 1980s recreating the early 90s Humans, and causing both 90s and 80s to dispise each other leading to the 90s-80s Disaster, after the 1990s Era began on January 1st, 1993.

Following her completion as a cultural era, post December 31st, 1992, 1980s is known to contain a population of over 5.480 billion people as of her final closing year of 1992.

## ***History***

### **Creation**

The decade saw a dominance of conservatism and free market economics, and a socioeconomic change due to advances in technology and a worldwide move away from planned economies and towards laissez-faire capitalism compared to the 1970s.

### **Yearly Timeline Events**

As economic deconstruction increased in the developed world, multiple multinational corporations associated with the manufacturing industry relocated into Thailand, Mexico, South Korea, Taiwan, and China.

Japan and West Germany saw large economic growth during this decade. The AIDS epidemic became recognized in the 1980s and has since killed an estimated 39 million people (as of 2013). Global warming became well known to the scientific and political community in the 1980s.

The United Kingdom and the United States moved closer to supply-side economic policies, beginning a trend towards global instability of international trade that would pick up more steam in the following decade as the fall of the USSR made right-wing economic policy more powerful.

The final decade of the Cold War opened with the US-Soviet confrontation continuing largely without any interruption. Superpower tensions escalated rapidly as President Reagan scrapped the policy of détente and adopted a new, much more aggressive stance on the Soviet Union. The world came perilously close to nuclear war for the first time since the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, but the second half of the decade saw a dramatic easing of superpower tensions and ultimately the total collapse of Soviet communism.
Developing countries across the world faced economic and social difficulties as they suffered from multiple debt crises in the 1980s, requiring many of these countries to apply for financial assistance from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank. Ethiopia witnessed widespread famine in the mid-1980s during the corrupt rule of Mengistu Haile Mariam, resulting in the country having to depend on foreign aid to provide food to its population and worldwide efforts to address and raise money to help Ethiopians, such as the Live Aid concert in 1985.

Major civil discontent and violence occurred, including the Angolan Civil War, the Ethiopian Civil War, the Moro conflict, the Ugandan Bush War, the insurgency in Laos, the Iran–Iraq War, the Soviet–Afghan War, the 1982 Lebanon War, the Second Sudanese Civil War, the Lord's Resistance Army insurgency, and the First Nagorno-Karabakh War. Islamism became a powerful political force in the 1980s and many jihadist organizations, including Al Qaeda, were set up.

By 1986, nationalism was making a comeback in the Eastern Bloc, and the desire for democracy in socialist states, combined with economic recession, resulted in Mikhail Gorbachev's glasnost and perestroika, which reduced Communist Party power, legalized dissent and sanctioned limited forms of capitalism such as joint ventures with companies from capitalist countries. After tension for most of the decade, by 1988 relations between the communist and capitalist blocs had improved significantly and the Soviet Union was increasingly unwilling to defend its governments in satellite states.

1989 brought the overthrow and attempted overthrow of a number of governments led by communist parties, such as in Hungary, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 in China, the Czechoslovak "Velvet Revolution", Erich Honecker's East German regime, Poland's Soviet-backed government, and the violent overthrow of the Nicolae Ceaușescu regime in Romania. Destruction of the 155-km Berlin Wall, at the end of the decade, signaled a seismic geopolitical shift. The Cold War ended in the early 1990s with the successful Reunification of Germany and the USSR's demise after the August Coup of 1991.

The 1980s saw great advances in genetic and digital technology. After years of animal experimentation since 1985, the first genetic modification of 10 adult human beings took place in May 1989, a gene tagging experiment which led to the first true gene therapy implementation in September 1990. The first "designer babies", a pair of female twins, were created in a laboratory in late 1989 and born in July 1990 after being sex-selected via the controversial assisted reproductive technology procedure preimplantation genetic diagnosis. Gestational surrogacy was first performed in 1985 with the first birth in 1986, making it possible for a woman to become a biological mother without experiencing pregnancy for the first time in history.

The 1980s was also an era of tremendous population growth around the world, surpassing the 1970s and 1990s, and arguably being the largest in human history. Population growth was particularly rapid in a number of African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian countries during this decade, with rates of natural increase close to or exceeding 4% annually.

The 1980s saw the advent of the ongoing practice of sex-selective abortion in China and India as ultrasound technology permitted parents to selectively abort baby girls.

The global internet took shape in academia by the second half of the 1980s, as well as many other computer networks of both academic and commercial use such as USENET, Fidonet, and the Bulletin Board System. By 1989 the Internet and the networks linked to it were a global system with extensive transoceanic satellite links and nodes in most developed countries. Based on earlier work, from 1980 onwards Tim Berners Lee formalized the concept of the World Wide Web by 1989. Television viewing became commonplace in the Third World, with the number of TV sets in China and India increasing by 15 and 10 times respectively.

The Atari Video Computer System console became widespread in the first part of the decade, often simply called "Atari". 1980's Atari VCS port of Space Invaders was the first killer app. The video game crash of 1983 ended the system's popularity and decimated the industry until the Nintendo Entertainment System re-established the console market in North America.

The hand-held Game Boy launched in 1989.

### **Creation of the Early 90s**

Super Mario Bros. and Tetris were the decade's best selling games. Pac-Man was the highest grossing arcade game. Home computers became commonplace. The 1981 IBM PC led to a large market for IBM PC compatibles. The 1984 release of the Macintosh popularized the WIMP style of interaction.

During the 1980s, the world population grew from 4.4 to 5.3 billion people. There were approximately 1.33 billion births and 480 million deaths. Despite the timeline ending entirely in 1989, the culture of the 80s would continue to live on for 2 more years until December 31st, 1992 when the 1980s completely ended entirely allowing the 90s to form in January 1993.

Development on the new breed of humans for the Early 90s became apparent or 80s, since 1987, as plans for new humans were immieadeitly drawn up in the billions, when 80s realized that her Era was not going to end in 1989, after the Yearly timeline ended, and that her culture was still strong enough to bypass up to 3 years more before stopping completely, eventually leading to the first development of the Early 90s beings, in 1988 and 1989 that would eventually lead to the birth of the humans of both 1990 and 1991, that would eventually be created, with 1992 being the final bastions of humans that was left for 80s to create which officially ended her culture, and brought an end to her timeline.

### **DNA Debacle of the Early 90s**

At the time of the creation and development of the early 1990s beings, in which 1980s herself had been constantly hard at work in creating them since 1987, 1990s who was a very young era at the time wished to immieadeitly take over from 1990 when the 1980s was planning the creation of the Early 90s Breed of humans, and presented to inject her DNA in place of 80s, which as a result led to significant problems when the Early 90s breed of humans were created in 1990 and ending in 1992.

As a catastrophic event that occurred, and going down in the history of the Void as the first time another Era had ever attempted to hijack another Era's population by illegally inserting their own DNA within them, led to a series of catalytic events from 1990 to 1992, which left 1980s in horror.

Upon learning of this, the Lord of History attempted to destroy the Early 90s, but 1980s was able to reverse the damage that 1990s had done, eliminating her DNA from every early 1990s being completely, and refurbishing them with her DNA once again, by destroying the tainted Early 90s and remaking them before the Lord of History could exterminate them, saving the humans of the Early 90s.

However, though the Early 90s were saved from destruction, the sudden switch of the DNA strands which undid 1990s destruction led to the catastrophic event of major changes in people's birth along with the remnants of some birth defects, a sight that would eventually cause the hatred 1980s would have within her for 1990s, and beginning the 90s-80s Disaster.

As a result tot he DNA Debacle, the Lord of History took full advantage of the anger 80s possessed toward 90s, for almost leading to the destruction of her people, and forced every Era within the Void of Timelines to communicate with one another or face destruction, this on part would force both 1990s and 1980s to communicate despite their disdain for one another.