I noticed if the TV was off or on (muted and black screen) without looking at it, but my parents did not.
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Want to kmow the weather, lottery results, TV channel program for the day and other info? Go to your TV and check the teletext
I am still using teletext every single day (albeit on my phone). It‘s my preferred way to get all the relevant news in the morning.
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Most of "The Anarchist's Cookbook" wouldn't work today because of the Internet and electronic receipts.
"At the tone, it will be 8:45 exactly." Beep
MonsterKing is young enough that he doesn't know you could push the slider and it would work on channel 4.
Hit the coin return button on everything and randomly get lucky once in a while.
I would go to the video rental store to play video games.
God, renting games from blockbuster was amazing.
Played so many great GameCube games that way.
I actually know what this means, from getting my mom’s Atari to work on my grandmother’s TV
I think it was channel 2 for that one though, idk. We switched to using the flatscreen because of the annoying high pitched noise. (To the annoyance of all retro gamers who read this)
TV had an end. After a last program or movie that ended after midnight, broadcast stopped and it only showed the test card.
When you bought a thing you owned it.
Buying the car kit so I could connect my CD Walkman (with 15 second ESP) to the cigarette lighter and cassette deck in my first car.
I referred to Jennifer Connolly as Stifler's mom and this zoomer gave me a blank stare.
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