SEARCHING THROUGH OUR GOLDEN OLDIES

We've been using the new search engine on thinktechhawaii.com and on our smartphone apps, and we've found that these new search functions can easily and immediately find and play a huge number of talk shows from years ago.

They are, indeed, our Golden Oldies, many of which from more than 10 years ago. They are nostalgic and in fact fun to watch, but they are also very informative, and open up a whole new (old) world, a trove, of the history of Hawaii as we have been covering it over these years.

Do you have an old show or topic you'd like to go back to?  Do you want to refresh yourself on how things were doing back then?  Do you want to recall the details of an issue, event or technology that was in discussion years ago?  Do you want to see hosts and guests who are now gone from the public conversation?  So many of them are there. This is the place you can find and enjoy them.

Yes, we do publish a selected Golden Oldie from our YouTube Golden Oldie playlist collection in each of our Weekly Email Advisories, and you can see them on a weekly basis.  But this is different; with our new search engine page you can do a much more probative search and quickly find and play any show or shows from the many thousands in our library.  It's a kind of magic carpet that will fly you to so much great content - shows, subjects and people you'd really enjoy seeing again. 

Try it at www.thinktechhawaii.com/videos/ and you'll find it's a real trip, a refreshing look at the past, a kind of time machine.  It's not only that this experience will take you back, it will also show you the direction of our community and ouir world.  It will let you compare how things were and how they have changed over the years.  The power of so much video living on the cloud and now also available on demand.  Useful not only for our viewership, but also for our hosts and guests who want to check it all out.

ThinkTech Hawaii, Every Day Better 

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