Subcultures in 80s'

Goths

This subculture was fount in many different places. It started from England and it was a part of the Post-Punk genre. This style is still "alive" and seems to be more temporal than other styles of the same era. Its name came after a headline "The face of Punk Gothique". In 1982 a bar called Batcave opened in London's Soho and in the later years the term "Batcaver" was refered for the old-school goths. The same time a similar style called death rock was born in America. Some years later in the later 80s' in Germany, a subculture called Grufti translated as "Tomb Creatures", combined the gothic, new wave and new romantic style and created the dark wave culture.

Fashion

Goths used to prefer clothes in 19th century's Victorian style, usually black and sometimes burgundy dark purple and white. Huge skirts and tufted Collars as well corsets was the clothigs for women and suits and vests for men. Moreover they used to have half shaved hair, piercings and weird, dark make up.

Cyberpunk

This is a science fiction genre that emerged in the early 80s'. The name was given by Bruce Bethke after he published a short story called "Cyberpunk" (cybernetics+punk) in 1983.It is linked as connected with advanced science and a radical change in the social order. Its plots are about hackers, artificial intelligences and mega-corporations that were supposed to happen in Earth in the near future with settings post-industrial dystopias. Cyberpunk is also featured prominently in anime such as Akira and Ghost in the Shell. The first exponents in Cyberpunk were William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, Bruce Sterling, Pat Cadigan, Rudy Rucker, and John Shirley. Although Cyberpunk started in 80s', the first influences in fashion and music had been in the early 90s'.

"Classic cyberpunk characters were marginalized, alienated loners who lived on the edge of society in generally dystopic futures where daily life was impacted by rapid technological change, an ubiquitous datasphere of computerized information, and invasive modification of the human body." – Lawrence Person