22 things that happened in 1984, the year ‘Stranger Things 2’ is set

George Orwell’s dystopian novel “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” published in 1949, predicted we would be living in a surveillance state. Sales of the book spiked four years ago after revelations of massive domestic surveillance operations in the United States, and the novel might draw parallels to today.
In the actual year 1984, the setting for the second season of Netflix’s “Stranger Things,” things seemed a bit goofier.
Here are some reminders.
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