Nostallgic technology.

I have been looking at the history of technology recently, How things have evolved, looking at Nostalgic things like BBC computers from the 1980's, and remembering my primary school days, we didn't upgrade at school for years, had an animation game on the BBC acorn PC and a game called Nanas garden which was basically a Y/N game like maze, but somehow you always got stuck by the witch.

Looking at all of the history, made me feel like I must have had aspergers, being able to program a computer at 5 years old.



All the games, the bleaps the sounds its amazing.

 Think there must be a theme at the moment at the BBC because a lot of open university programs are about the old ways of technology

This program looks at a very middle class gadget mad family, attempting to embrace life with out all Mod cons, goes from the 1970's, and they go up a year every day till 2000.

It reminded me how we all thought the apocalypse was going to happen because computers would die the milenium bug all that kind of thing, it sounds rediculous now.

When I was younger my auntie won a Nintendo 64, I ran around the house very excited about getting it for christmas, I also got an original BUZZ lightyear, but that is no longer in my possession, I could have made some money from those things.

I think my love of Nostalgia happened when my sister downloaded a Zelda Ocarina of time for her Nintendo Wii. the original N64 version I was so happy, I'm actually terrible at playing games, but was a good bonding exercise or something.

http://bbc.co.uk/i/n90xc/ This is called electric dreams.

I also got in to looking at Synths and how Kraftwerk, re-invented music, and basically having that lack of personality, robotic quality, had a charm all of its own. Gary Numan, "Cars" is one of the best songs and evidence of synths in music and though it sounds historic now, imagine how revolutionary it all was, then.

But a lot of it ended up being watered down pap, The 70's My Dad said he felt embarrassed to be alive, I think If I was born a decade earlier, I would have really not enjoyed the 80's would have attempted to cling to The Smiths, and avoid all that Synth Britania but looking at it in a new light and not having to live through it, you can have a pretend sense of nostalgia, just remember the good bits, if there were any

The 1980's a predominately shameful decade.

http://bbc.co.uk/i/n93c4/