From the mid 1980's until about 1992, not much occurred involving high technology and myself.  The most dramatic thing was probably Nintendo.  It took Atari games to a new level, which could really draw in the player.

About the same time, though, we picked up an IBM compatible computer.  We still had no color monitor, but we had a modem, and then we found the Prodigy network.  People going way back may remember the Star network.  We connected to it with a 1200 baud modem on our Apple IIe.  Do those people ever wonder what happened to it? Well, the name was simply changed to CompuServe.  I guess that means we were online in the early 1980's, but I never saw Star or any other network until I started posting on bulletin boards on Prodigy.  I did learn one very important lesson with that IBM - how to navigate MS-DOS.  People today really take for granted the wonderful GUI they look at with any Windows OS, but they don't know it is still built upon the DOS structure created a decade before.  It is ironic that my friends sometimes have me help debug their Windows 95 system.  How do I do it?  By going into DOS and changing things there.  That really blows them away, but they often don't realize that UNIX is very similar, except that it is still widely used all over the world.  My friend found this saying and uses it in his e-mails.  Ironically, it is more true than people think.
 
 
 

Defined: Windows 95: n, (win-doz)

32 bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit operating system originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor, written by a 2 bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition.