my 2 cents: Tron Legacy

It's the Year 1982...

January 10 – The lowest ever United Kingdom temperature of -27.2°C is recorded at Braemar, in Aberdeenshire.

January 26 – Mauno Koivisto is elected President of Finland.

January 26 – Unemployment in the United Kingdom increases by 129,918 to 3,070,621, a post-war record.

February 2 – The Hama massacre begins in Syria.

March 10 – The United States places an embargo on Libyan oil imports, alleging Libyan support for terrorist groups.

April 2 – The Falklands War begins: Argentina invades the Falkland Islands.

April 4 – Falklands War: The British Falkland Islands government surrenders, placing the islands in Argentine control.

April 5 – Falklands War: The Royal Navy task force sails to recapture the Falklands.

April 12 – Falklands War: A 200-mile 'total exclusion zone' around the Falklands proclaimed by the United Kingdom comes into effect.

June 5 – The first Rubik's Cube World Championships is held in Budapest, Hungary.

July 9 - The movie TRON is released.

August 12 – Mexico announces it is unable to pay its large foreign debt, triggering a debt crisis that quickly spread throughout Latin America.

August 17 – The first compact discs (CDs) are released to the public in Germany.

December 7 – The first U.S. execution by lethal injection is carried out in Texas.

All this happened meanwhile 27 years ago.
Can you imagine that we're using CD-ROMs now for 27 years? No wonder that many younger people don't know anymore a music cassette or vinyl long player ;-)

Do you remember Rubik's Cube?
Trust me - EVERYONE was trying to solve this tricky puzzle (well... at least in my memory).

1982 was also the year when I was able to see the first time in my life something like TRON.

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Geez... believe me or not - when I saw this movie the 1st time I really BELIEVED that small little people are living in the computer (c'mon... I was 5 years old *hehe*).

Actually, everytime there's TRON on TV I take a "time out" and try to watch it - brings back a lot of good memories.
Everything was much much easier back those days. If you had troubles you just grabbed your Ernie or Bert muppet, told them what happened - and everything was okay again.

So, I was quite happy and excited when I read today in the news that Disney is going to release TRON LEGACY in 2010 - and after I watched one of the trailers... Wish it would be 2010 already ;-)