• Gammelfisch@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    There was something called a rotary telephone and TV with an antenna. Children were typically used as the remote control to change the channel using a dial or buttons on the TV.

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      Also kids being the first to run into the house and turn on the TV because it had to warm up. You needed to have it up and running before your show came on because if you missed it you weren’t gonna see it until reruns. Now it has occurred to me the term rerun is obsolete