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A photo of director David Lynch seen shooting Wild at Heart, a 1990 movie starring Laura Dern and Nicholas Cage...Which is all that will be said regarding that film. While Lynch's presence as a household name today comes from his episodic Twin Peaks,…

A photo of a camera used by Kubrick, most likely from the 1975 movie Barry Lyndon. Kubrick is responsible for many iconic movies which have found their way into pop culture today. The most prevalent of all being The Shining, a horror movie starring…

The 80s saw the creation of titans within the coming to age genre, and much of that comes from John Hughes. From writing on National Lampoon's to directing the Breakfast Club(And Ferris Buellers Day Off of course), much in the same vein as Rebel…

This terrible Steve Miner(known for bad sequels to iconic horror films) flick is a "light-hearted" romantic comedy in which actor C Thomas Howell dawns blackface to attend Harvard. The main joke of the movie seems to be centered around affirmative…

Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) first became widely available to home computer systems in the early 1980s. Among the first and most popular of these in the decade was the NEC D7220, which utilized the technology of Large Scale Integration circuit…

The system which defined the fourth generation of gaming consoles, the Sega Genesis pulled the industry into the 16-bit era. Sparking the first "console war" with the SNES, the two companies fought through a series of marketing campaigns. The Genesis…

Founded in 1984, Silicon Graphics was a high-performance computer manufacturer which led the industry in 3D graphics software and workstations. SGI's computers focused on pushing the limits on what was possible for computer graphics, with built-in 3D…

The first short film that uses fractals to generate 3D graphics. Created by Loren Carpenter of Boeing in 1980, the short film represented a revolution in imaging software, and Carpenter would go on to work for Lucasfilm ILM and later Pixar.

Released in 1984 by Steve Jobs and Apple, the Macintosh (or Mac) was the first commercially successful personal computer to feature a graphical interface instead of rather than the command-line interface of its predecessors. The Mac's production was…

The Game Boy was Nintendo's first entry into the market of handheld video games. Released in 1989, the Game Boy was an 8 bit gaming system that was both wireless and portable. The Game Boy was incredibly popular, selling over 118 Million units over…