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Post by Shalamar on Sept 26, 2012 17:01:24 GMT -4
I think we had three stations - or was it four? - and one of 'em was French, which we didn't speak.
There was one Saturday when, for some reason, I was able to pick up some of a U.S. cable station that was showing cartoons. The picture was horribly snowy and I couldn't hear any of the dialogue, but damn, I was livin'.
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Post by Freelance Exorcist on Sept 26, 2012 19:08:15 GMT -4
I remember when most people had only one TV in the house, and the kids had to watch what Dad wanted to watch, which at the time was the original Dallas, scary movies and sports. My dad was into every sport you could imagine. My brother and I always had to go to bed when the scary movies came on, but eventually we were allowed to watch them unless they had a lot of sex or swearing.
I also remember when HBO was a box that was plugged into the auxiliary port of the TV and the service wasn't available 24/7. Either it turned off at a certain time at night or didn't come on until a certain time in the evening, I don't remember. But I do remember Video Jukebox, which was sort of like MTV before MTV was a thing. And they played short films between movies!
Anyway, reading back on this thread and remembering all of this stuff makes me chuckle, because these days I don't know what I'd do without my smartphone, laptop, Internet, email, DVR, Blu-Ray and video games with high-end graphics. Meanwhile, I got by just fine back then. Sure, I was a kid, but still.
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Post by kateln on Sept 26, 2012 19:36:58 GMT -4
I remember when MTV played music.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2012 19:59:10 GMT -4
I remember when Bravo mostly highbrow culture programs like opera and ballet, when TLC showed nothing but home improvement and other DIY shows, when A&E aired bios and serious dramas and whatnot, and when the only reality shows were COPS and The Real World.
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Post by Carolinian on Sept 26, 2012 20:51:05 GMT -4
I was in high school when pocket calculators came out around 1973. Only the math geeks got them since they were over $100. (Over $500 in 2012 dollars.) By the time I graduated in '77 I had a Texas Instruments calculator that could do trig which I paid about $25 for. Now they are disposable and cost $1.
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Post by carrier76 on Sept 26, 2012 21:19:44 GMT -4
Ah, the good old days. Honestly, I didn't even mind when TLC was airing things like "A Wedding Story." But this Honey Boo Boo nonsense? How is this LEARNING? How is anyone learning anything? Is it still called The Learning Channel?
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Post by kateln on Sept 26, 2012 21:52:49 GMT -4
I was in high school when pocket calculators came out around 1973. Only the math geeks got them since they were over $100. (Over $500 in 2012 dollars.) By the time I graduated in '77 I had a Texas Instruments calculator that could do trig which I paid about $25 for. Now they are disposable and cost $1. <small voice> I just use the ones on my phone/computer.
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Post by tabby on Sept 27, 2012 13:20:21 GMT -4
No, it's just "TLC" - they dropped the words several years ago and just use the initials.
I learned to use a slide rule when I took AP Physics in high school. At the time, while calculators were available, they were still too expensive for the school to expect that everyone would have one. (Also, the AP Physics teacher was decidedly old-school and probably fought the demise of the slide rule with every waking breath.)
But the math-and-science geeks who had calculators? The HP vs. TI arguments were as intense as any Mac-vs-PC or Texas-barbeque-vs-Kansas-City-barbeque flame war you've ever seen.
True geeks also wore their calculators on their belts, like their slide-rule-wearing predecessors had.
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Post by americanchai on Sept 27, 2012 13:46:35 GMT -4
Do kids still have Trapper Keepers with the plastic zipper pockets where you kept your Ticonderogas? And I remember having to punch holes in handouts that didn't have holes in them already. And do kids still cover their schoolbooks with old paper grocery store bags? (Do most grocery stores still use paper grocery store bags?) Ahh good times.
I will also raise my hand as somebody who still has a tube TV (but a new-fangled one with a DVD and a VCR built into it!). The only reason I have this 30-incher and am not still using my 19-incher is because my best friend's mom died and they gave it to me. My ten years younger neighbor offered to buy me a flatscreen TV so he could watch cable at my house on football nights and I just stared at him like he told me I had a spike running through my head.
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Post by Gigiree on Sept 27, 2012 17:06:30 GMT -4
Well, after eight (8!) years of begging, I finally got new textbooks for my World Literature class, and I brought in grocery sacks and made each of my students make a cover for their book. Several asked me if they could use one of those fabric thingees, but I told them no because those don't protect the book as well.
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