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The gadgets, toys, music videos and ads of the 70s, 80s and 90s, pictured, every fact traced to its source.

Every fact traced to its source. Free, every week, about 3 minutes.

Who publishes it

Grew Up With It is an independent weekly email from Alex Vita, Bucharest, Romania. Write to hello@grewupwithit.com. What it holds on you, and how to complain to ANSPDCP, Romania’s data protection authority, are on the privacy page.

How it’s made

Drafted with AI tools, approved by a person.

The numbers in brackets link to the page they came from. A price, a chart position or a date runs with the page it was read on. A figure we could not read on the scan does not run.

Independent

Independent. Not affiliated with any company, brand, network or agency named here. Names and trademarks belong to their owners and are used only to identify them. Photos and scans are credited where shown.

Pictures

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Today’s dollars

The price, times the latest month of CPI-U, divided by that year’s annual average, rounded.

Today’s dollars: our calculation from BLS CPI-U, retrieved November 6, 2026. BLS.gov cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from BLS.gov.

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