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 1979, the International Year of the Child, we experienced the reunification of our country, the tennis successes of Steffi and Boris, and the spelling reform. On the playground, we played car quartets and traded shiny and Panini stickers. As teenagers, we had to choose between brand-name jeans and a slouchy look, and preferred talking to friends rather than parents. We knew all the lyrics of the Neue Deutsche Welle and idolized New Kids on the Block and Take That. What a carefree and exciting time it was!.