Users can create videos (think
1980s video dating), adding a unique and unexpected way to get to know people better.
Not exact matches
In the AMC show «Halt and Catch Fire,» set in the
1980s and 1990s, a teenage daughter is amused to find her dad's corny
video -
dating stash.
The usual potted history is offered, from 1960s computer
dating (erroneously called «early internet
dating» by Ansari — there was nothing online about those IBM mainframe, punchcard - operated services), to lonely hearts ads with their complicated, expensive voice mail services and
video dating in the
1980s, followed by the emergence of Match.com in 1995 and the amazing numbers of people who use internet
dating (here he reproduces the stale 2013 figure that a third of American marriages today began online; Pew recently drastically downsized the figure to say that only five per cent of married Americans have met online).
Mediated matchmaking is certainly not a new phenomenon: Newspaper personal advertisements have existed since the mid-19th century (Schaefer, 2003) and
video dating was popular in the
1980s (Woll & Cosby, 1987; Woll & Young, 1989).
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The
1980s brought you
video dating.
The isometric viewpoint in
video games
dates back to the
1980's.
Twin Galaxies is the world authority on player rankings, gaming statistics, and championship tournaments, with pinball statistics
dating from the 1930s and
video game statistics from the early
1980s.
«Pixel Forest» will be the most comprehensive presentation of Rist's work in New York to
date; it spans the artist's entire career, from her early single - channel
videos of the
1980s, which explore the representation of the female body in popular culture, to her recent expansive
video installations, which transform architectural spaces into massive dreamlike environments enhanced by hypnotic musical scores.
The exhibition features a range of media, including painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, installation and
video; never - before - seen works from the
1980s; new large - scale sculptures; and the artist's most ambitious architectural installation to
date: a vast and immersive mirrored labyrinth that will go on view in ICA Miami's Atrium Gallery.
Video art from the early
1980s — which indiscriminately employed then - new digital editing tools — can look
dated today, yet Beckman's work holds up.