Before Facebook and Twitter

Home computers entered households in the 1980s, and the internet was ten years away. Consumer consciousness did not encompass terms like spam, online pornography, computer anxiety, and electronic social media. The generation championing love and peace of the 1960s marched into the 1970s and was met with soaring inflation, political unrest, and a decline in national pride in the United States. Consumerism, declining throughout the 1970s, stagnated the economy. Unlike the previous generation's focus on social change, a new era was eager to embrace innovative economic ideas.