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Be kind to your elders (lemmy.world)
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[-] wanderwisley@lemm.ee 16 points 4 weeks ago

I was born in 1983 and I’m old enough to remember having only 5 tv channels, vcr’s, and you couldn’t get on the internet if your mom was in the phone.

[-] quinacridone@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 weeks ago

I can remember only having 3 TV channels, and they closed down sometime around midnight until the morning. You got the fuzzy black and white bits of CBR on the screen when they turned the signal off

When videos came out, only my richer friends had them and they were few and far between, we used to have an after school video club where we'd pay 10p to watch a film in the AV room (sat on a carpet of old piss stains)

The internet didn't exist, and I saw my first computer while at secondary school in the late 80's (I'm thinking BBC commodore or something, I can't really remember)

I feel so fucking old right now lol

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago

As a kid we had four channels in the rural US. ABC, NBC, CBS, and PBS had really good coverage and all shut down at midnight. Then a Fox station started up just close enough that I could pick it up clearly at night to watch Babylon 5!

It was happier times.

[-] wanderwisley@lemm.ee 3 points 4 weeks ago

Reading this made my back and neck hurt lol.

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