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Electronic Innovations
If you lived through the 1980s, then you know it was an amazing decade. It seemed like every month some cool new technology came onto the market. Many of the most popular consumer products today made their mark in the 1980s.
To see just how much happened in this decade, here are a dozen technologies that became popular in the 1980s:
Personal computers
Graphical user interface
CDs
Walkmans
VCRs
Camcorders
Video game consoles
Cable television
Answering machines
Cell phones
Portable phones
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Rise of the Yuppie Culture
Yuppie culture is what life looks like in the big US city centres - in gentrified older quarters, in warehouses turned into markets (a la Covent Garden, Britain's most yuppie invention), in restaurants, clubs and shops. -
Cable goes mainstream
Cable television increased in availability throughout many cities during the 1980s, rendering "over-the-air" subscription television obsolete. -
Spread of HIV / Aids
HIV/AIDS has had a great impact on society, both as an illness and as a source of discrimination. The disease also has significant economic impacts. There are many misconceptions about HIV/AIDS such as the belief that it can be transmitted by casual non-sexual contact. The disease has become subject to many controversies involving religion. It has attracted international medical and political attention as well as large-scale funding since it was identified in the 1980s. -
Developments in the Space Program
During the 1980s, Kennedy Space Center made a critical shift in focus. Instead of moving relatively quickly from one human spaceflight program to another, as in the fast-paced 1960s and 1970s, the spaceport's workforce and facilities now were geared toward preparing and launching a revolutionary new spacecraft that would further advance our capabilities in orbit: the space shuttle. -
War on Drugs
War on Drugs is an American term commonly applied to a campaign of prohibition of drugs, military aid, and military intervention, with the stated aim being to reduce the illegal drug trade. -
Tense Relations with Iran
On November 4, 1979, the revolutionary group Muslim Student Followers of the Imam's Line, angered that the recently deposed Shah had been allowed into the United States, occupied the American embassy in Tehran and took American diplomats hostage. The 52 American diplomats were held hostage for 444 days. -
Pollution Persists
With an increased need for industrialization, humans did not care for the pollution that it caused. -
Cold War Ends, Concerns Shift to China
When he entered office, he made a headstrong statement that he wanted to end the Cold War. -
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The 1980s
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1981 Tax Cut and Reaganomics
he Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 was a federal law enacted in the United States in 1981. It was an act "to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to encourage economic growth through reductions in individual income tax rates, the expensing of depreciable property, incentives for small businesses, and incentives for savings, and for other purposes".