The visual design of cars - small, sleek and angular instead of giant, fat and round (however the engines were all leaded petrol etc)
Nothing was tracking me or spying on me (perhaps except the PE Teacher)
Fewer things were packed full of artificial sweeteners
The music charts used to be a thing that mattered. We were entering the era of manufactured trash pop, but there were still some genuinely good songs released, which charted, such as this one (Youtube Link)
The "Golden Age" of action films (all the Stallone/Schwarzenegger ones etc)
Lots of small independent shops and manufacturers, rather than 10 mega-corporations