Excited and full of anticipation, we looked to the future back then! Join us in reminiscing about the first 18 years of life - your childhood and youth! Born in 1970, at the beginning of a decade that promised much newness and was characterized by wild patterns and colors that shaped our childhood days. We grew up with rubber boots, terrorist manhunts, and Playmobil, loved Maya the Bee and Dallas, and had fun first in outdoor pools, then in party basements and discos. As we rode the waves of the 80s, everything was in constant flux. Today it was knitted sweaters, tomorrow bright Moonboots, and in between dance school and a bit of nuclear paranoia. It was a great time, first wonderful, then cool, and finally just awesome. Katja Tornau, also born in 1970, and her co-author Matthias Rickling, take you on a journey into your past, embedded in the geopolitical context.