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  • Your MTV Memories (30th Anniversary of MTV on August 1st)

    07/29/2011 4:08:26 PM PDT · by SilvieWaldorfMD · 167 replies
    80sVJs.com ^ | 7/29/11 | MTV Staff
    August 1 marks the 30th Anniversary of MTV. MTV revolutionized the way we looked at music and the VJs were a big part of shaping that vision. We want to know what it meant to you. Do you have fond memories of watching MTV or your favorite VJ? We’ll collect your stories through the month of August and post them here on the site as we get them. We will be accepting form entries starting Saturday, July 30th, 2011. Entries may be edited and become the property of 80sVjs.com.
  • 30 years in Apple products: the good, the bad, and the ugly

    04/01/2006 5:01:54 PM PST · by qam1 · 62 replies · 1,775+ views
    Engadget ^ | 4/1/06 | Ryan Block
    Has it really been 30 years since two buddies named Steve sold off their prized possessions (Woz's HP calculator and Jobs' VW van) to raise money and launch a company? Has it really been 30 years since the two Steves, tired of selling blue-boxes, built the Apple I and began selling it for $666.66? Yes, it has, and if you don't believe it, just compare Jobs' hairlines from 76 and today. And while the company has become known for many things, from its groundbreaking GUI to the iTunes Music Store, we know Apple has always been a hardware company at...
  • Vietnam: The Fog of War or the Smoke of Propaganda? - (Cronkite, "..and that's the way it is")

    05/05/2005 5:49:54 PM PDT · by CHARLITE · 15 replies · 840+ views
    NEWSMAX.COM ^ | MAY 3, 2005 | CARLTON SHERWOOD
    Thirty years ago, Americans were transfixed by the chaotic images flickering across their TV screens. Hordes of frantic South Vietnamese men, women and children desperately clinging to the U.S. Embassy fence in Saigon, pleading for escape. Chinook helicopters teetering precariously on the Embassy roof, evacuating the last Americans even as North Vietnamese Communist Army tanks rolled into the outskirts of the city. Huey gunships, the very symbol of American combat power in Vietnam, commandeered by fleeing South Vietnamese Army pilots, either ditched into the sea or pushed overboard from the decks of crowded American aircraft carriers. If the film footage...