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[–] robolemmy@lemmy.world 68 points 1 month ago (13 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!

[–] LadyButterfly@lazysoci.al 26 points 1 month ago (10 children)

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

[–] Pipster@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 month ago

I was so confused when i found out not everyone had channel 5. And we had the vhs tuned to 5 on the tv so channel 5 was on 6...

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