Technology has been around for a long, long time. Many of the most popular consumer products still around today. A surprising number of the technologies that define life today got their start in the 1980s, such as camcorders, cell phones, answering machines, personal computers, etc. Technology has come to benefit our lives and make it easier and will only get better.
During the time of the 1980’s, there was a lot going on in our history. The Cold War was on its last years in the 1980s. In the United States its military ended involvement in Vietnam. The Civil Rights Movement and women’s movements reached many of their goals (“1970s and ‘80”). Ronald Reagan became president and benefited the economy by reducing