đź“ź Retro Tech
This pocket-sized device was used to receive short numeric messages before cell phones became common.
What is a pager/beeper?
In 1945, Dr. Sidney Garfield and Henry J. Kaiser opened this health plan to the public, marking the birth of Kaiser Permanente.
What is the Permanente Health Plan?
This sitcom featured four older women living together in Miami and eating cheesecake at all hours.
What is The Golden Girls?
This animated film featuring a cowboy and a space ranger became the first full-length movie made entirely with CGI.
What is Toy Story?
This sitcom about six friends living in New York City premiered in 1994 and made “We were on a break!” a household phrase.
What is Friends?
Before Spotify and Apple Music, this portable device let you carry your favorite mixtapes on the go.
What is a Walkman?
In 2004, Kaiser Permanente launched this iconic advertising campaign to promote its vision of total health.
What is the “Thrive” campaign?
This show followed a group of lifeguards on the beaches of California and made slow-motion running iconic.
What is Baywatch?
This handheld digital pet, launched in Japan in 1996, beeped constantly and needed to be fed, cleaned, and played with.
What is a Tamagotchi?
This toy, introduced in the late '90s, was a furry, blinking, talking creature that sometimes refused to sleep.
What is a Furby?
These square, plastic storage devices were once the go-to for saving files—until USB drives took over.
What are floppy disks?
In 2003, Kaiser Permanente partnered with this company to build what would become the largest civilian electronic medical records system in the world.
What is Epic Systems Corporation?
This 1990s sitcom featured a quirky alien named Mork from the planet Ork.
What is Mork & Mindy?
This NBA legend shocked the world by announcing his return to the Chicago Bulls—and went on to win three more championships.
Who is Michael Jordan?
This 1985 film featured a DeLorean, time travel, and the phrase “Great Scott!”
What is Back to the Future?
This clunky machine connected you to the internet using a phone line—and a lot of patience.
What is a dial-up modem?
This innovative facility, opened in 2006 in San Leandro, CA, was designed to test new health care ideas before clinical use.
What is the Sidney R. Garfield Health Care Innovation Center?
This show, set in a Boston bar “where everybody knows your name,” ran for 11 seasons.
What is Cheers?
This search engine, launched in 1996, was one of the first to index the web and became a household name before Google.
What is Ask Jeeves?
This boy band had fans screaming in the late '90s with hits like “I Want It That Way.”
Who are the Backstreet Boys?
Released in 1982, this home computer from Commodore became one of the best-selling models of all time.
What is the Commodore 64?
In 2017, Kaiser Permanente expanded its reach by acquiring this Washington-based health cooperative.
What is Group Health Cooperative?
This 1980s drama followed the lives of the wealthy Carrington family in Denver.
What is Dynasty?
This chess grandmaster lost a game to IBM’s Deep Blue, marking a turning point in AI history.
Who is Garry Kasparov?
This animated series, known for its yellow characters and satirical humor, became the longest-running primetime TV show in U.S. history.
What is The Simpsons?