Showing posts with label 1986. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1986. Show all posts

Thursday, January 28, 2016

30 years


Three decades ago today, my wife and I were on the road somewhere on U.S. 60 in south-central Missouri, on our way to Washington, D.C., from Springfield, Mo.

We turned on the radio. There was network special coverage on. The space shuttle? What happened?

Then the punch in the gut. It's a cliché because it's true.

Sunday, December 19, 2010

Your Daily '80s: Good eggs on breakfast TV


When Australian funny lady (and psychologist) Pamela Stephenson went on Britain's TV-am in December 1986, no one knew eggs-actly what the hell she was doing.

But at least weather presenter Wincey Willis was an egg-cellent ducker.



THAT YEAR, the independent-TV morning show crew got off easy.

On
BBC 1, there were firearms. Enough said.

Tuesday, December 07, 2010

Your Daily '80s: It's Dick Tracy, I tells ya


It's an age of miracles in 1986! Phones you can carry in your pocket! Without wires!

And they only cost a few thou!

What in the world will they think of next?

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Friday, October 22, 2010

Your Daily '80s: 1986 looks back on 1969


In the fall of 1986, a new prime-time news program hit the
ABC airwaves -- Our World.

It was a news magazine devoted to the news of days past, with Linda Ellerbee and Ray Gandolf as hosts. I minored in history, so I was a sucker for this show.

Sadly, not so many others were.

Anyway, direct from the fall of '86,
Our World looks at the summer of '69.







Monday, October 18, 2010

Your Daily '80s: Before there was AOL. . . .


Long ago, in a universe far away, there was no such thing as the World Wide Web.

There was a primitive Internet in this primitive universe, and there were extremely slow telephone modems, and there were Commodore 64 computers, too. Likewise, there was a service called Quantum Link.

A few years later, you would know it by a more familiar name -- America Online. Which is now AOL.

Which is kind of peripheral to what we do on the Internet.

Once upon a time, though, this promotional video was selling us what we imagined to be a George Jetson world, and today was barely imaginable.