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Because it was the year that brought us cinematic classics such as Back To The Future Part II .
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...Honey I Shrunk The Kids ...
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Because the only game system that ever mattered, the Gameboy, was released.
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Because Time, Inc. announced they were merging with Warner Communications, giving us Time-Warner. And without Time Warner WHAT WOULD WE COMPLAIN ABOUT?
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Because everything good was premiering on television, like The Simpsons
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Because the greatest company mascot ever, the Energizer Bunny was introduced to the world.
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Because Madonna gave us Like A Prayer this year.
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And Cher gave us the instantly iconic "If I Could Turn Back Time."
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"We Didn't Start The Fire" By Billy Joel and "Smooth Criminal: by Michael Jackson also came out. It was a fucking good year for music.
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Because this was the first commercial for a cell-phone, and also for the coolest cell phone to ever exist.
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Carpe Diem was the hot phrase thanks to Dead Poets Society , which is the much better and original version of YOLO.
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Because one gallon of gas only cost 97 cents.
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Because the fashion was on point:
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Because it was the year that same-sex marriage was recognized for the first time. Thanks Denmark !
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Because Jay Z first appeared on Yo! MTV Raps wearing this cool jacket.
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And Taylor Swift was born, which wasn't a big deal for everyone at the time, but now is really important.
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Because Reba's hair looked like this:
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Because AOL was launched and without it A/S/L would never exist.
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Because this is what Weird Al winning a Grammy looked like:
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And this is Weird Al at another time. Basically Weird Al was really cool.
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Because for one second on June 7th the time read: 1:23:45 6/7/89.
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And just because anyone born in 1989 is probably cool AF. '89 rulez.
