Remember how staticy CRTs were? Or the loud hum as it booted up?
Or even the picture growing and warming up or shrinking down to the middle when you turned it off.
Also putting a magnet up against the glass!
I used to play with a metal bodied pen at my desk, and you could totally shock yourself by touching it to your chin while aimed at the CRT.
It was either Bill Nye or Schoolhouse Rock playing.
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i think I once saw one of those non flat cathod ray tubes TVs in my grandma’s house when I was a child.
Reddit may have a point in requiring users to be at least 13 to join…
I’m 19… today’s 13yos where born in 2010.
The sedimentary rock song has been in my head for 25 years…
Before videotapes, we used to watch film strips with guided audio tapes that would beep to advance to the next image. Some would auto advance.
Where’s the laserdisk player?
Oh shit i hope we’re watching either a goofy movie or one of the Smithsonian Discover videos!
