Do You Believe These Things Are All 30 Years Old In 2015? [Videos]

A gallon of gas was $1.09, a ticket to see a new movie cost $2.50, you could buy a new home in Grand Rapids for just $59,000 and I was working at a radio station in Tijuana, Mexico. 1985 was a very good year.

1985 was also a very good year in pop culture. Music was deeply diverse and sales were at all-time highs, TV sit-coms hit their stride and the Internet began crawling out of its computer womb.

So, here's a list of things that will turn 30 years old in 2015. Prepare to feel old.

The internet's first domain name -- The first commercial Internet domain name, in the TLD com, was registered on 15 March 1985 for the site name "symbolics.com" bySymbolics Inc., a computer systems firm in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

"We Are The World" -- The charity single was organized by Michael Jackson's producer Quincy Jones, and was a response to the British pop hit "Do They Know It's Christmas?". Written by Jackson and Lionel Richie, the hit featured '80s pop stars Bruce Springsteen, Huey Lewis, Kim Carnes, Cyndi Lauper and Kenny Loggins among others, as well as actors like Dan Akroyd and athletes like baseball pitcher Bob Gibson.

"The Breakfast Club" -- The movie about five teenagers spending their Saturday in detention at a suburban Chicago high school opened to mixed reviews and mediocre box office (finishing behind "Beverly HIlls Cop" and "Witness" on its opening weekend), but it has since gone on to be considered the quintessential film on American teenage life. Each actor represented a segment of the high school community: The Geek (Ally Sheedy), the Brain (Anthony Michael Hall), the Burn Out (Judd Nelson), the Jock (Emilio Estevez) and the Beauty (Molly Ringwald), who all find common ground during their eight hour stay together. The movie's soundtrack featured several top 40 hits including this one from Simple Minds.

Blockbuster Video -- Video rental stores were largely a small, local business before Blockbuster emerged and offered huge selections of movies to take home. Sadly, Blockbuster didn't make it to its thirtieth birthday, dying in 2011 of bankruptcy at the age of 26.

New Coke -- Considered one of the biggest marketing blunders in history, Coca-Cola changed its time tested flavor formula in April of 1985 to hugely negative reviews. The company was forced to return its original formula to stores as "Coca Cola Classic", and eventually phased out the "New Coke" formula.

Guns 'N Roses -- The rock band first formed, featuring members of previous bands Hollywood Rose and L.A. Guns. They signed their first big record deal a year later.

"Back To The Future" -- In the sequel, they would time hop to this very year, but the original set box office records and propelled Michael J. Fox to superstardom, even though it had a creepy side plot of a Mom falling in love with her son.

Wrestlemania --The first pay per view event of the fledgling World Wrestling Federation featured a tag team match pitting Hulk Hogan and Mr. T against Rowdy Roddy Piper and Paul Orndorff broadcast from New York's Madison Square Garden. It was a financial success and is still going strong. WrestleMania XXX was held in April of last year.

The Golden Girls -- Who knew that a comedy about the lives of five retired women in a Florida community would be so successful? The show is credited with changing the perception of the elderly in America, including the startling fact that they still had sex.

MacGyver -- Starring Richard Dean Anderson, as a member of a CIA-like government organization that went about trouble shooting problems world wide, MacGyver became known as the guy who solve problems with whatever he had on hand, usually involving duct tape and a Swiss Army knife.

Nintendo -- The most popular off shoot of the original Nintendo video game console, known as the NES for Nintendo Entertainment System debuted, bundled with a little game known as Super Mario Brothers. It became the biggest selling system and biggest selling game in history.

The first million selling Compact Disc -- "Brothers In Arms", the Dire Straits CD featuring the hit single "Money For Nothing" became the first compact disc to outsell its vinyl counterpart and go platinum (over one million sold) on the CD side alone. Strangely, vinyl is on the midst of a comeback, while CD technology has been replaced by mp3 technology.

David Letterman's Top Ten List -- Originally aired on September 18, 1985 as a way to mock People magazine's lists, this feature never went away and will be retired with Dave, when he steps down form the helm of The Late Show in May. David has admitted he hates the list, and wanted to kill the nightly feature, but kept it around because it was so popular.

1985 was such a great year, that there's a song written specifically about it!

For more information on things that turn 30 this year, here's the almanac page for 1985, and Mental Floss' annual "30 Things That Turn 30 This Year" list.