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Archive for January, 2009


Where do you buy 80s memorabilia

If you are like me, you would be kicking yourself for throwing away a lot of you old toys/music/clothes etc that you used (and enjoyed) back in the good old 80′s. I still have most of my old vinyl records but the ironic thing is that I have nothing to play them on! That aside, [...]

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Space shuttle flights in the 80s

Remember when you were were younger and you heard that NASA were going to space in this new aircraft that looked like a plane, and when the mission was finished the craft would then glide bac to Earth and land like a plane? I do, and of course it was the Space Shuttle. It seemed [...]

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Microsoft Computing in the 80′s

Believe it or not (depending how old you are will bring back memories), but Microsoft Windows started it’s life in the 80′s. In November of 1983, Bill Gates showed IBM his new operating system, Windows. It went down like a lead balloon, but Bill realised that a proper GUI based operating system would be the [...]

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Rage – going retro in January

For you Aussie readers, Rage which is the music video show on the ABC is going retro this month. As they have done in previous years around this time, reruns of the the classic music shows countdown and rock arena are being shown this month. As always with Rage, you can look at the playlists [...]

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