Hype History
This nuclear power plant exploded in 1986.
Chernobyl
a young boy is recruited into the midst of an interstellar war.
Enders Game
This TV show aired a yellow family for its first episode in 1987
The Simpsons
This 1985 hit song by George Michael features a distinctive saxophone number, often used for more mature scenes in movies or shows
Careless Whisper
this small, packed circle replaced cassettes and vinyl records as it made transfering music and other information signficantly easier
CD/Compact Disc
Regan introduced an economic policy aimed at giving the upper-class of America more tax brakes for the goal of the money eventually making its way to the lower classses.
Reganomics/Trickledown economics
She born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe's new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word.
Beloved
This cartoon starred a detective by the same name of the show, often coming up with new gizmos each episode
Inspector Gadget
This love song by Katrina waves talks about how she wondered if "you loved me, but now I'm sure"
Walking on Sunshine
This company released the first commercially avalible mobile phone.
Motorola
This shuttle exploded during launch in 1986
Challenger
In their youth, two fell passionately in love. When one eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, the other is heartbroken, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs—yet he reserves his heart for the original. Her husband dies at last, and the other purposefully attends the funeral. Fifty years, nine months, and four days after he first declared his love for her, he will do so again.
Love in the time of Cholera
This Action-Adventure Cartoon from 1983-85 takes place on the planet of Eternia ruled by Randor and Marlena
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
This song by Michael Jackson was Princess Diana's favorite song
Dirty Diana
Sony released this music device to make listening to music on the go easier
The Walkman
The W.H.O. declared this disese eradicated
Smallpox
You will find Backward Bill, Sour Face Ann, the Meehoo with an Exactlywatt, and the Polar Bear in the Frigidaire. You will talk with Broiled Face, and find out what happens when Somebody steals your knees, you get caught by the Quick-Digesting Gink, a Mountain snores, and They Put a Brassiere on the Camel.
A Light in the Attic
This sitcom took place in NY originally airing in 1989 having the same name as its director
Sienfeld
This United Kingdom hit by Sade talks about an agent traveling from coast to coast, where there's no need to ask.
Smooth Operator
LCD stands for this
Liquid Crystal Display
The wreckage of this famously sunk ship was discovered in 1985
Titanic
this book chronicles the brutal world of the Texas-Mexico borderlands in the mid-nineteenth century. Its wounded hero, the teenage Kid, must confront the extraordinary violence of the Glanton gang, a murderous cadre on an official mission to scalp Indians and sell those scalps.
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
This stop motion short told the story of two tiny lovers
Pinny's House
This song by Van Halen released with one of the most iconic synth tracks of the 80's telling of a certain body movement.
Jump
This device, made by Chuck Hull, led to what is now known today as 3D printing
stereolithography