Magazine advertisement for the Sony Stowaway personal stereo, launched in the UK in 1980. In 1981, it would be patented as the Sony Walkm...

1984 - Side-stepping Orwell's version - exciting times... The new Apple Macintosh came with a computer mouse. The first commercial ...

Nice brick, mateyboots! The DynaTAC 8000x - the very first hand-held cell phone on the market. The year? 1984! Crikey! Go back thirty-one...

Ah, 1984... Ronald Reagan won his second term in office as President of the USA; Margaret Thatcher had won her second General Election wit...

This is the front of an historic document - the very first script of the Australian soap opera Neighbours , written in 1984 by none other ...

What a year was 1984... Sir Alec Jeffreys at Leicester University, England, discovered DNA fingerprinting - entirely accidentally; Trivia...

Terry McCann (Dennis Waterman) tells Arfur Daley (George Cole) where to get off at The Winchester Club. Dave (Glynn Edwards) looks on. Launc...

Does that nose look quite right to you (the one on the dummy, I mean)? The Sun June 14 1984: Pop star Boy George was sitting pretty yester...

The Grand Hotel, Brighton, after the IRA bomb explosion on October 12, 1984. Margaret Thatcher... Does the name make you smile? Or does it m...

Did you pursue the trivial in 1984? Many people did as the UK edition of Trivial Pursuit made its debut in January. Trivial Pursuit (origina...

Alec Jeffreys at work in his Leicester University lab in 1985. Scientist Alec Jeffreys (now Sir Alec Jeffreys) was at work in his lab ...

"Relax" by Frankie Goes Hollywood sent shockwaves through the pop-picking population of England... Although used to scantily clad...

Alexey Pajitnov, the game's creator, began work on Tetris whilst employed at Moscow's Computer Centre in June 1984, and that work ...

1984 saw us moving into the Yuppie era. For many, the financial hard times were over. They had been grinding on since the early 1970s, and s...