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not really sure what you're getting at - the gregorian calendar was implemented retrospectively - people alive in what we call the year 1 didn't call it the year 1 did they? Curious to see how you plan on demonstrating 1970 didn't exist.
I am merely refuting whoever decided to write on wiki that they'll just arbitrarily change the definition of a decade for one instance - it's that that seems silly to me.
"Yeah? Well, you know that's just like, uh your opinion, man"

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from that page:
'Wikipedia resolves this problem by only having "9" years in the first "decade".'
well, yes i refute that resolution and i'm not alone - you'll find quite a few bright people with a little imagination (and a strong enough mind not to accept blithely what wikipedia tells us) could easily accept nov 24th 1980 as being part of the seventies the same people who insisted the millenium be celebrated on the night of 31st december 2001. Just 'cos wiki says it, doesn't make it right, and to give a link to a page which gives wikipedia on hearsay, hmmm
if you follow the thread, i was actually defending someone who was attacked for getting something wrong, i was explaining how in one way of thinking they are not wrong
"Yeah? Well, you know that's just like, uh your opinion, man"

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well, if you want full-on pedantry, i feel it's my duty to tell you that the counting system for years starts with the year 1, not the year 0.. so actually the 70s, like any decade, actually ended at the end of the tenth year, starting the count at 1 - so it ended on dec 31st 1980
"Yeah? Well, you know that's just like, uh your opinion, man"

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Blondie's album Parallel Lines which has Heart of Glass when platinum 6/6/79. That means it had sold at the very least 1,000,000 copies by that time. So maybe not 20 million, but certainly enough that a small midwestern town would have access to Blondie.
I was 10 years old in 1979, and I was aware of and listening to Blondie in a small Texas town, because, ya know, we had TV, and TV had American Bandstand, and American Bandstand had Blondie as well as The Kinks, The Cars, The Talking Heads and all sorts of other music that was playing all across the US in 1979. I also had a super-cool aunt who lived in an even tinier town in New Mexico who also listened to Blondie! She got the album when it first came out in 1978 right there in that small town at a local record store named Panda Records and Tapes. Yep, pretty amazing that a town with a population under 10,000 might have access to something like popular music! So I'm pretty darn sure the town depicted in this movie had access to Blondie as well as lots of other things depicted in the movie.
Might wanna check yourself before you post an ignorant a**hole response.

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I noticed that also lol!

Just like to add, as someone from England, who was born in the early 70's
They 'were' being called the Rubik's Cube in 1979..and advertisedbecause I bugged my mum for almost 6 months for one.
And got one the day it was out (god I love my mum hehe)
I hope that settles the argument.
Let it ride

My husband and I are laughing at the "Oh my God" statement because we were about the same ages as these kids back then, grew up in two different states, and that statement was said quite frequently.

Actually, we did say Dude. Before FT.

Nope. If you were a white kid, you didn't start calling people dude until Jeff Spicoli popularized that word in FTaRH.
On the contrary to the guy who said that kids weren't listening to Blondie in '79. I was nine years old when she came onto the scene and I thought she was great.

Did kids call each other "dude" back then?

I also didn't think kids back then said "Whatever". Didn't that only become common in the late 80s and 90s?

What we didn't say in the Midwest in 1979 was "gnarly", which Cary says of the older kid's car. The deputy also says something about having saved "some slices", which is a NY/LA thing. In the Midwest, we say "some pizza." And we wouldn't have dared to swear like Super 8's kids. They're worse than the kids in the Goonies.
Close Encounters is way worse about geography, tho. It depicts central Indiana as having cliffs and high ridges, toll roads, and tunnels.

That's not continuity. Continuity is everything remaining the same between shots, for example, if a drink level changes several times in a scene without the actor taking a drink, that is continuity.
Regarding the phrase omg, I was a kid in the 70s, it was absolutely a part of the vernacular. My sisters said it all the time.