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…
I know we’re shit posting but if I could get real for a moment, this is how I learned about 9/11.
TV rolls in. Whole class goes “Yay”. Teacher says, “Be quiet and watch”. Whole class goes, “Oh no, he’s grumpy”. Whole class goes, “Wait… This is live TV”. A whole world changes.
Otherwise though, TV good.
This is how I found out too. I remember 9th grade had just begun and it was the first class of the morning. Replays of the planes hitting the towers were playing over and over when we walked into the classroom. I was living in Alaska at the time so it felt like a world away. It was all very surreal.
I arrived in Hong Kong from the US on 9/11 (so 9/10 in the US). Turned on BBC in the evening… and didn’t sleep for a few nights. Extremely weird way to start a year teaching in China.
Where’s the laserdisk player?
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.
Oh shit i hope we’re watching either a goofy movie or one of the Smithsonian Discover videos!
