On January 22, 1984, the Apple commercial for the Macintosh 128K aired during the Super Bowl. The "1984" Mac ad became ...

Happy anniversary to the classic Van Halen album, 1984. “House of Pain” was a song Van Halen played during their club days in the mid-‘70s, and the band performed part of “Girl Gone Bad” in the middle ...

George Orwell’s dystopian novel “1984,” set in an imagined future where totalitarian rulers deprive their citizens of all agency in order to maintain support for senseless wars, has topped electronic ...

This story was written by CNET's Caroline McCarthy. The fact that the Los Angeles Raiders humiliated the Washington Redskins in a 38-to-9 victory is a mere afterthought. Super Bowl XVII's lasting ...

January 17, 1984: A week before its famous airing during Super Bowl XVIII, Apple’s iconic “1984” commercial debuts as a trailer in movie theaters. To hype its revolutionary new Macintosh computer, ...

George Orwell’s “1984,” published seventy years ago today, has had an amazing run as a work of political prophecy. It has outlasted in public awareness other contenders from its era, such as Aldous ...

Mr. English is the author of, among other books, “The CIA Book Club: The Secret Mission to Win the Cold War with Forbidden Literature.” I traced a copy of George Orwell’s “1984” to the library of the ...

In a peak moment of pop monoculture, synthesizers pumped up songs and MTV forever changed how artists were seen. Here’s how — and why. Credit... Supported by By Jon Pareles Forty years ago, the ...