Microsoft Windows is a group of several graphical operating system families, all of which are developed,…
80s Events
Remember Live Aid, or the fall of The Berlin Wall, these and other major events of The 80s, can be found here. Highlighting the highs, lows of world events and great innovations that begin or took place throughout the decade.
Berlin Wall
Dateline- November 1989 The Berlin Wall (German: Berliner Mauer, pronounced [bɛʁˈliːnɐ ˈmaʊ̯ɐ] (listen)) was a guarded concrete…
Halley’s Comet in 1986
Halley’s Comet or Comet Halley, officially designated 1P/Halley, is a short-period comet visible from Earth every…
Comic Relief
Comic Relief is an operating British charity, founded in 1985 by the comedy scriptwriter Richard Curtis and comedian Lenny Henry in…
Nintendo Game Boy
The Game Boy is an 8-bit handheld game console which was developed and manufactured by Nintendo…
Remembering Hillsborough
The Hillsborough disaster was a fatal crush of people during an FA Cup semi-final football match between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest at Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, England, on 15…
NASA Space Shuttle Disaster 1986
On January 28, 1986, the NASA shuttle orbiter mission STS-51-L and the tenth flight of Space…
Falklands War
The Falklands War (Spanish: Guerra de las Malvinas), also known as the Falklands Conflict, Falklands Crisis,…
Video Tape Format War
The videotape format war was a period of intense competition or “format war” of incompatible models…
CNN
Cable News Network (CNN) is an American news-based pay television channel owned by Turner Broadcasting System,…
Channel 4
Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster that began transmission on 2 November 1982. Although largely commercially self-funded, it…
80s Mania Tour 2019
Europe’s biggest 1980’s reunion tribute concert. Dig out your 80’s fashions and come along. On stage…
ZX Spectrum
The ZX Spectrum (UK: /zɛd ɛks ˈspɛktrəm/) is an 8-bit personal home computer released in the…