Its important to note the backdrop for the time period when this article was written. A few key things that happened in 1985: - Steve Jobs leaves Apple to fou

Its important to note the backdrop for the time period when this article was written. A few key things that happened in 1985: - Steve Jobs leaves Apple to found NeXT - John Hendricks launches the Discovery Channel in the United States. - Super Mario Bros. is released for the Nintendo Entertainment System. - The Free Software Foundation is founded in Massachusetts, USA. - Microsoft Corporation releases the first version of Windows, Windows 1.0. - Solarquest, the space age real estate game, is first published by Golden. There are a ton more, but there was a huge wave of Entrepreneurship in the mid 80's which would have a profound effect on the next 20 years of nearly every part of of culture. Source - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985