Bangkok--13 May--Image Impact
Program Title: Modern Marvels: 80s Tech
Channel: HISTORY on TrueVisions A23 and D48
Telecast Date & Time: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 at 7.00 p.m.
Remember the huge "Brick" cell phone? Remember testing your skills at Pac-Man, Rubik’s Cube and Simon? Remember your Sony Walkman and the very first music CDs? Remember all the new and exciting gadgets of the 1980s? We do. It was the transition from the industrial age to the information age. A digital decade dedicated to ergonomics and entertainment. Big hair, big shoulder pads…and no Big Brother. The microchip ushered in an era that would forever revolutionize the way we work, play and communicate. Goodbye, pencil, paper and secretary. Hello, PC. Out with the record player and family Scrabble night. In with the Walkman and Gameboy. Video games and mobile technology burst on to the scene, and we were ready.