How to live life like they did in the 80s and 90s?

Get one of those big cars and throw away your cell phone. 

It's kind of hard to live what life was like in the 90's, and kind of impossible to live what life was like in the 80's, at least without getting thrown in jail several times over.  They were distinctly different decades, and I'm old enough to remember both of them.

Let's start with the 80's, the decade when women were women and men looked like them.  Telephones all had to be plugged in to the wall, Coke and Pepsi were at war with each other, every movie not rated G had at least one obligatory topless scene, and hip-hop was a new thing in New York.  Home computers were popular, but not as popular as the video arcade.  Home video game consoles were all the rage, and the games were so simplistic it was downright primitive by today's standards.  Kids could listen to U2 and Madonna OR Motley Crue and Judas Priest, but never all of the above.  Jeans were so tight they literally left scars and cut off circulation, and hairspray sales have never been higher.  For most of the decade, everyone was worried about nuclear annihilation, and people couldn't decide if dying in the attack was scarier than surviving it.

Then the 90's happened, and everything was different.  Everyone stopped using hairspray, in fact many stopped taking showers altogether.  Computers became cheaper and faster at an unprecedented rate, and tight jeans and spandex were replaced by baggy jeans and plaid shirts.  Motley Crue and Madonna were suddenly out of work, replaced by the likes of Nirvana and a ghastly disease known as boy-bands.  The drum machine and auto-tune were invented, further destroying the art of music.  Film directors suddenly decided that topless scenes were no longer required in movies, and global warming replaced communism as the evil boogeyman.  Smack in the middle of the decade, the internet changed absolutely everything.  It was a clunky and somewhat awkward start, but the porn industry was actually the first to truly capitalize on this new platform.  

Seriously, you can't actually go back to the way things were in those decades.  

By watching some of the popular TV series from the 1980's + '90's....

For 1980's: The A-Team, The Dukes of Hazzard, Knight Rider, AirWolf, Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, She-Ra, Thundercats, Count Duckula, Dennis, Only Fools & Horses, The Young Ones, The Kenny Everett Show.... also re-runs of "This Old House" are available to stream from their website.

For the 1990's: Home Improvement, Friends, Seinfeld, The Larry Sanders Show, The Gummie Bears, Duck Tales, Blossom, Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Grace Under Fire, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Father Ted, The Brittas Empire, Rugrats, Rocko's Modern Life, Star Trek: Deep Space 9 + Star Trek: Voyager, The Detectives.

From the 1970's or earlier, but heavily repeated in the 1980's + '90's (and in some cases rolled over production into the 80's + 90's).......

Battlestar Galactica (classic series), Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Fawlty Towers, Open All Hours, The Flintstones, Looney Tunes (esp. Road Runner), The Pink Panther Show, Police Squad.

Movies.... from 1980's: Top Gun, Days of Thunder, Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters II, Vacation (1983), European Vacation, Christmas Vacation, Beverley Hills Cop 1 + 2, Die Hard 1, Lethal Weapon 1 + 2, Back to the Future, Gremlins, The Great Outdoors, Brewster's Millions, Blue Thunder, A Fish Called Wanda, Summer Rental... and not forgetting "Planes, Trains & Automobiles" + Flash Gordon + also the Roger Moore era James Bond movies, particularly "For Your Eyes Only".

Additional (set in the 1980's, but came out later):

"Cool Runnings" (1993, based on a 1980's story)

"Eddie the Eagle" (2015, losely based on a 1980's real life story)

Movie essentials from the 1990's: Home Alone, Home Alone 2, Die Hard 3, Lethal Weapon 3 + 4, Pretty Woman, Vegas Vacation, Pretty Woman

Gaming...... plenty of retro gaming channels on YouTube, such as "LGR".... and majority of it available to download and emulate as "abandonware" (hell of a lot easier to get them working than it is to get Windows Games from '95 through Windows 7 to work on Windows 10).

"Half-Life" game from 1998 still available for purchase through Steam, and actually still works on Windows 10.

"Mid-Town Madness" game from 1999 also still works

"Age of Empires II" is available re-worked in HD via Steam + the microsoft store

"Re-Volt" is available as a free download as "RVGL"

Music.... "Queen" concerts from 1980's.... "Live from the Bowl" (1982) + "Live at Wembley" (1986) available as Albums on iTunes + footage on YouTube.... think also seen full video of at least one of them available through iTunes UK

Motor Racing.... season review video footage from the 1980's + 1990's available on either DVD or Digital Download via a company called "Duke Video" (also got a bit of stuff on Motorsport.tv).... there's also a few retro clips floating around on YouTube.

Buy a Commodore 64 and throw away your cellphone and all other computers.

Films like Look Who's Talking and Three Men And  A baby  were popular , you could try buy a SodaStream and wear leg warmers and buy a video player and get hold of some crummy Jane Fonda workout videos and watch Live Aid and the Freddy Mercury memorial concert .