Intelligence is simply talking to many people

Words from Various Decades

The 1960s

Acid rock
Action figure
Ageism
Chocoholic
Credibility gap
Cyberpunk
Cyborg
Doomsday cult
Finlandization
Five O'Clock Follies
Flower child                 <---Best word of the decade?
Flower power
Global South
Global village
Graphic novel
Hypertext
I know it when I see it
Limerence
Media mix
Mind the gap
Mooning
Multimedia
Nanny state
Paparazzi
Plastic soul
Political lesbianism
Power pop
Psychedelic rock
Punk rock
Retro style
Rock opera
Rockumentary
Rude boy
Summer of Love
Supergroup
Trekkie
Turn on, tune in, drop out
Unreliable narrator
Wall of Shame
White Power

The 70s

After school special
Alternative music
Darknet
Earworm
Ebonics
Eurocentrism
Gabba Gabba Hey
Garage punk
Glass ceiling
Hotpants                           <---Best word of the decade?
Impostor syndrome
Information superhighway
Krautrock
Lolicon
Lunar standstill
Many-worlds interpretation
Meme
Microaggression
Mind map
Rape culture
Soft skills
Technosexual
Victor's justice
War on drugs
What happens on tour, stays on tour
Whistleblower
Womyn
Zippie

The 80s

Alternative comedy
Audio commentary
Bioneer
Culture jamming
Cyberspace
Dream pop
Eurotrash 
Feminazi
Foodie                                  <---Best word of the decade?
Garage rock
Going postal
GUBU
Hardcore punk
Himbo
Infomercial
Jacking
Laptop
Lesbian bed death
Lipstick lesbian
Lurker
Magical feminism
Make America Great Again
Masculism
McJob
Melee weapon
Meta-ethnicity
Millennials
Molecular gastronomy
Mommy track
MTV Generation
Nanotechnology
New Sincerity
Noise rock
Outing
Queer
Rogue state
Salish Sea
Sha-wing!
Slipstream genre
Sneakernet
Steampunk
Story arc
Systemness
The Donor Class
Weak central coherence theory
Whut up?
Young fogey

These words apparently came from the 80s but they remind me of the 90s:

D'oh!
Emo

The 90s

1% rule (Internet culture)
Benefit tourism
Bling-bling                                      <---Best word of the decade?
Blog
Bromance
Catvertising
Cheese-eating surrender monkeys
Contagious shooting
Cultural technology
Daily Me
Driving while black
Erotic target location error
Eternal September
Face time
Final girl
First World problem
G (gansta)
Greatest Generation
Game backup device
Generation Y
Geoweb
Girl power
Google
Helicopter parent
Heroin chic
Heteronormativity
Incel
Internet meme
LGBT
Metaverse
Metrosexual
Paywall
Post-Islamism
Red pill and blue pill
Shoegazing
Short twentieth century
Singles' Day
Social justice warrior
Talent management
Technoscape
Throw shade
W00t
Workplace bullying

The 2000s:

Axis of evil
Bae
Bizarro fiction
Blue Monday 
Boomerang Generation
Bootylicious
Brights movement
Bro Code
Chillwave
Citizen enterprise
Cool Japan
Crabcore
Credit crunch
Crowdfunding
Cyber Black Friday
Cyber Monday
Deep web
Digital native
Eurosphere
Facepalm
Flying while Muslim
Freemium
Friend-to-friend
Game brain
Generation Z
Glass cliff
Google bombing
Green Scare
Hacktivism
Hypnagogic pop
Image macro
In-yer-face theatre
Involuntary park
Latinx
Library 2.0
Life hack
Like button
Lipstick index
Longplay (video games)
Man date
Manic Pixie Dream Girl
Mansplaining
Men Going Their Own Way
Meninism
Moneybomb
Netflix and chill                                     <---Best word of the decade?
Online office suite
Participatory media
Personal air vehicle
Photoblog
Pink slime
Pink tide
Post-democracy
Nanopunk
Racebending
Reality-based community
Remix culture
Rule 34 
Selfie
Sexting
Superdiversity
Superfood
Throwback Thursday
Truthiness
Twitter bomb
Wardrobe malfunction
Web 2.0
Webcam model
Yacht rock

The 2010s:

Alt-right
Alternative facts
Big Five
Binge-watching
Black Girl Magic
Black Lives Matter
Brexit
Carefree Black Girls
Climate Emergency Declaration
Conservative wave
Deepfake
Deviant current
Fakenews                         <---Best word of the decade?
Hate-watching
Hipster sexism
Indigo Era
Islamo-leftism
It's OK to be white
Manspreading
Mass shooting generation
Microadventure
Millennial whoop
Opener (baseball)
Post-truth politics
Responsive web design
Safe space
Sharenting
Smartphone zombie
Tiger parenting
Uberisation
Unicorn (finance)
Vaporwave
Virtue signalling
Woke

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