August 14, 20232 yr So was it cool when you guys were huddled around your black and white TVs to watch Neil climb down the ladder of the LM in real-time?
August 14, 20232 yr Born in the late 80s, but I lived in the sticks so it was antenna TV until the mid 90s My grandfather was always ahead of his time; he got dial up in ‘94 on his Tandy 1000. After that I didn’t see cable internet until I was already a man.
August 14, 20232 yr 22 minutes ago, Toastrel said: I was one of the first people in Jenkintown with Comcast cable services back in the 90s. At the office in Horsham, we had a T-1 line, yes, 1.5MB of screaming internet, which compared to a 33.6K modem, was pretty fast. I used to drive home, download stuff to my Zip drive, then drive back to work, faster than they could download 1/4 of what I was getting. We had a T1 in the computer lab at university, but if we wanted internet in the dorm we had to use our own dial-up modem. I had a 4800 baud clunker. First thing I downloaded was a "hi-res" radio telescope image from NASA. It took a couple of days. Second thing I downloaded was a picture of Bridget Fonda from a Usenet group.
August 14, 20232 yr 9 minutes ago, Arthur Jackson said: We had a T1 in the computer lab at university, but if we wanted internet in the dorm we had to use our own dial-up modem. I had a 4800 baud clunker. First thing I downloaded was a "hi-res" radio telescope image from NASA. It took a couple of days. Second thing I downloaded was a picture of Bridget Fonda from a Usenet group. Ah, the olden days. There was an FTP site at the University of Lille, in France, had quite a lovely image collection. I can still see Stephanie Seymour, topless, in a mermaid tail, coming in line by line over dial up.
August 14, 20232 yr we didnt have cable or an vcr until we moved out of the city. growing up, i was the t.v. remote.
August 14, 20232 yr 4 minutes ago, Alpha_TATEr said: we didnt have cable or an vcr until we moved out of the city. growing up, i was the t.v. remote.
August 14, 20232 yr 20 minutes ago, Alpha_TATEr said: we didnt have cable or an vcr until we moved out of the city. growing up, i was the t.v. remote. and now you're the garbage disposal...right, tubby?
August 14, 20232 yr 7 minutes ago, mr_hunt said: and now you're the garbage disposal...right, tubby? hater
August 14, 20232 yr 32 minutes ago, Alpha_TATEr said: we didnt have cable or an vcr until we moved out of the city. growing up, i was the t.v. remote. When my now 36 yr old son was around 4 or 5, I mentioned that we didn’t have remotes when I was a kid. He thought I was messing with him and looked at his mom for confirmation. He looked back and seriously asked me how we changed the channel.
August 14, 20232 yr We got our first color TV when I was 12. 3 VHF stations, 4 if PBS came in, ha ha. Plus another 3-5, depending upon how much static you could take There was never a remote control in my parents house growing up. They didn't have an answering machine when I moved out.
August 16, 20232 yr 2 hours ago, vikas83 said: Gen X trying to save us all Jack Smith was born… …back in the summer of 69. Oh yeah (sorry)
August 16, 20232 yr Author On 8/14/2023 at 3:06 PM, Toastrel said: We got our first color TV when I was 12. 3 VHF stations, 4 if PBS came in, ha ha. Plus another 3-5, depending upon how much static you could take There was never a remote control in my parents house growing up. They didn't have an answering machine when I moved out. Every once in a while, one or two NY stations would come if the skies were clear and the antenna was pointed in the right direction.
August 16, 20232 yr 32 minutes ago, Procus said: Every once in a while, one or two NY stations would come if the skies were clear and the antenna was pointed in the right direction. That was always the best feeling. Catching twenty minutes of some strange station.
August 16, 20232 yr 7 hours ago, Dave Moss said: @Arthur Jackson what year were you born? I guessing the year of the Rooster.
August 16, 20232 yr 8 hours ago, Procus said: Every once in a while, one or two NY stations would come if the skies were clear and the antenna was pointed in the right direction. We had a box that rotated the antenna on the roof. We could get NY stations to watch the horror flicks on their stations. Other than that - Toaster like - three locals on VHF (4 if you count PBS) and three UHF stations And it was very cool to watch the moon walk in real time...
August 16, 20232 yr 10 minutes ago, sameaglesfan said: We had a box that rotated the antenna on the roof. We could get NY stations to watch the horror flicks on their stations. Other than that - Toaster like - three locals on VHF (4 if you count PBS) and three UHF stations And it was very cool to watch the moon walk in real time... My family had just moved to England for 3 years. I watched it on a tiny B&W TV in the temporary flat in London where we stayed until my parents found a house. That was a great time to be an American in England.
August 16, 20232 yr Holy ish guys, I was joking, but some of you actually did see it live. Respect, fam.
August 16, 20232 yr I don’t remember watching the first fake moon landing but do remember them rolling a tv into the classroom so we could watch some of the later fakes.
August 16, 20232 yr 38 minutes ago, we_gotta_believe said: Holy ish guys, I was joking, but some of you actually did see it live. Respect, fam. My first memory is my mom on the living room floor, on one knee, watching the news about the Kennedy assassination. She never watched TV during the day, called it the idiot box. I had no clue what was going on. I described the scene to my older sister, and she said it had to have been Kennedy.
August 16, 20232 yr 13 hours ago, Dave Moss said: @Arthur Jackson what year were you born? Well, I was about 20 when you were conceived, so subtract nine months from your birthdate then just do the maths from there
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