National Geographic presents a diary of a decade: the 1980s IF the 1960s was the decade of change, and the 70s the one taste forgot, then the 80s - at least according to this monumental 10-part series from National Geographic, simply called The 80s - was the decade that made us. And, no, they don't mean made us behave in the silly ways we did, such as wearing awesome-sized shoulder pads and feathered hair as an assertion of newly acquired female power, or wasting hours with Rubik's Cube-induced headaches so severe we had to go to bed, or even calling everyone "brother" and living by WrestleMania star Hulk Hogan's three "demandments": train, pray and take vitamins. In the 80s, Hulk was big.