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Such a loss (lazysoci.al)
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[–] 70 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You kids with your fancy “tapes!” In my day we had to watch whatever the hell was on the three or four channels we could pick up with the rabbit ears, and we were damn glad to have it!

Once a year they’d show a Bond movie or Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, or maybe even that Willie Wonka movie. Such an event!

VCRs didn’t exist until I was a young adult. Doggone spoiled kids!

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  • [–] [S] 26 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I vividly remember being a teenager and channel 5 coming out. It was a huge deal

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Is it not batshit insane that we were throwing movies around via radiation before video tapes at home?

    Turns out it is, so much so that we decided to bury light across the country to make movies get here faster.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It's crazy what we do, and to think most people have no clue of all the crazy physics that has to happen for some of their most basic activities everyday.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Back in high school, a buddy of mine mused about something that still itches my brain.

    When they built the first computer. How the fuck did they figure out how to "make it turn on"? Like... the first boot cycle.

    Really makes you appreciate some of the insanely complex stuff that we take for granted.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago*

    I'm not really sure what you mean. The first computers didn't have an OS or anything. They just took the input and applied the assigned operation.

    This gets more advanced when you want a BIOS loaded first, but it's not particularly complex. It does the same as above, but the first instructions jump to the BIOS, which itself is just another set of instructions that initialize things.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It would've been, but I didn't get it until the mid/late 2000's. First I lived in Herts which only got it if you had Sky, then just before it came out there, I moved to Brighton, where it wasn't allowed because it interfered with radio signals along the north coast in France. Still not sure if I've ever watched anything on Channel 5.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    We must be about the same age. The VCR was a game changer. As I recall, the answering machine came just before it, and it's kind of amazing how fundamentally that changed things, too. People from more recent generations just don't get what a different paradigm it was when you couldn't necessarily contact your friends. You'd call their house, but if there wasn't an answer that didn't necessarily mean much. They might be outside, or maybe not home. Maybe they were on their bike heading to your house.

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