Show Your Kids What Christmas Was Like in the ’80s

Posted by Jen Chaney at 5:00 PM on December 12, 2008

Know how you're always telling your kids that they don't know what it was like when you were growing up? Well, here's one way to show them: spend some time with "A Beta Max Xmas," a fantastic holiday-themed Web site that loads massive amounts of '80s Christmas programming into a super-old school television screen. 

That's right, you can delve into such gems as the "He-Man and She-Ra Christmas Special," commercials for Toys R Us (starring Geoffrey Giraffe!) and a music video of Billy Squier rocking out to "Christmas Is a Time to Say I Love You" alongside MTV VJs Martha Quinn and Mark Goodman. A  TV Guide — featuring the cast of "Diff'rent Strokes," natch — and a remote control also appear on the page for those who want to peruse their viewing options.

I have already sacrificed a solid chunk of time to this site and still can't contain my admiration for its sheer awesomeness. Serious kudos to Jeffrey Bennett, a San Francisco digital designer who created this work of Internet genius.

So click, enjoy, share the retro joy with your kids (who will be appalled after about five seconds at how lame the '80s were) and prepare to watch hours of your life get sucked away into a delicious World Wide Web vortex.

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