With almost half a century separating the present from the 1980s, it's easy to start thinking of the era of big hair and emerging tech as the distant past. However, it's worth noting that much of the ...

The '80s was a decade on the constant cusp of technological transformation, and, in many ways, this period was the last hurrah of analog devices. By the '90s, tech running on magnetic tapes, ...

The 1980s are forever immortalized in popular culture as an era of primitive digitization, with technological revolutions spanning everything from the artificial heart to the Space Shuttle. The ...

Got boxes of old electronics in the attic, garage, or your parents' basement? A lot of that "junk" is just outdated 80s tech that nobody uses anymore. But to collectors, those same gadgets can mean ...

The 1980s were a great decade, especially for groundbreaking tech innovations. It gave us consumer electronics like the Sony Walkman, compact discs, and mobile phones, and also introduced medical ...

Nintendo introduced the world’s first handheld clamshell gaming system, the Game & Watch, in 1980. The company continued that design with the Game Boy Advance SP, Nintendo DS, and Nintendo 3DS, but ...

The 1980s are a fascinating period in recent history. It was the decade when regular people really started to experience the high-tech revolution, which, up to that point, had largely been limited to ...

Back in the 80s, buying a home computer could easily mean an inflation-adjusted cost of thousands of dollars (or your equivalent currency unit of choice), and all for an 8-bit machine that might ...

A 1980s style room with retro gadgets, such as a CRT TV, gaming console, and VCR. - Pressmaster/Getty Images The '80s was a decade on the constant cusp of technological transformation, and, in many ...