Yeah. Amply and aptly debunked already upthread.
Yeah, that show is the reason we’ll refer to a two-time Oscar winner as Opie Cunningham.
What you could say about Ozzy Osbourne though, is that he is still married to Sharon and they are one of the most devoted celebrity couples.
You’d be crucified in that conversation. Nobody believed it would last. I want to say they got married right around the time of the whole bat-head-eating nightmare. So people would talk about that and then say - dripping with sarcasm - “Oh, and he just got married. Bwaaa ha ha haaaa that poor girl.”
For another topic: The most popular meal-replacement product among young people is called “Soylent.” The word was literally gag-inducing at the time. It made goosebumps appear on your arms. It was right up there with “The call is coming from inside the house!”
No one in 1985 would be surprised that Robin Williams would finally have a successful movie career. And no one would have thought of him as an “irritating comedian” on a “nit-wit” show.
In 1985 Robin Williams won the Best Actor Golden Globe for 1984’s Moscow on the Hudson.
So does that make me sound crazy like the OP asked?
Also, there’s really not much mystery around why he killed himself. He had Lewy Body Dementia, and was suffering horribly from it.
Thought of one the other day in the car:
Tom Hanks is considered one of the greatest dramatic actors of our time and maybe all time.
Sushi will be such a mainstream food you can buy it at a gas station. Not that you should, but you can.
That works!
Seeing Hanks him in Taxi as Jim’s dorm friend, I’m thinking, “That’s Philadelphia guy?”
Even crazier from covid days: you are required to wear a mask in a bank.
There are polka dots painted on the sidewalk in front of my church. They’re there so we know where six feet apart is.
This also applies to the local elementary school.
We’re 30 years away from a working fusion reactor.
“Life won’t be all that different 40 years from now. The TVs will be bigger, and everyone will have pocket computers that connect them to all the information in the world, but we still drive around in cars and wear the same sort of clothes and astronauts never leave low earth orbit and we all still talk shit about Donald Trump.”
Wasn’t it already niche by then? National Semiconductor, Texas Instruments, and Rockwell had already given up on it by then. I vaguely remember bubble memory, but I was young, and don’t remember there being much hoopla about it in 1985. I mean if those companies were already like this isn’t worth pursuing, I’m guessing it’s not a stretch to think it wouldn’t make out in the future.
National had committed to the technology. I believe we were well into 1985 when Bubble Memory was cancelled. It was leading edge stuff, National and Intel had new product introductions in '84. I was working on a Bubble Memory controller using our COP2404 dual processor chip when I got word that it wasn’t necessary.
You would remember better, but the New York Times ran an article as early as 1981 that bubble memory was dead.
I know it’s hard to read anything there, but the idea even back then was no dice on the technology. According to Wikipedia in that article it is stated that National Semiconductor, among others, closed their bubble memory operations. But there were five others — including Intel, as you mention — that continued on. Maybe the bit about National is incorrect, but it seems to me that the whole technology was shaky by that point, so not unbelievable to hear the news that it went nowhere. I believe you were in the industry, so maybe it was still a big deal then, but as a young consumer, it was barely on my radar, so I suspect ther average person wouldn’t even know what bubble memory is.
Also, by 1985, I think most people - or at least, people to whom the term “bubble memory” was meaningful - understood the pace of computer development meant that things that were hugely important at the time might be entirely deprecated and forgotten in 5-10 years.
But online you would have presumably have already interacted with the the other person online, so in some situations at least it wouldn’t be out of line to suggest private mesaging.