• Altima NEO
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    7 months ago

    The world before the Internet.

    I was there. We had to go to the library if we wanted information. The magazine aisle at the grocery store is where you got your up to date info that you couldn’t always get on TV. TV was like 5 channels. A few more local ones if you were lucky.

    They’re was nothing on TV after a certain hour. Just static, or colored bars and a buzzer. You had to wait till morning for TV broadcasts to start again.

    No one had cell phones. You had to go to your friends house to see if they were home, and yell for them at their window.

    Fun times.

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      7 months ago

      Remember when there was the morning News, and then the 6pm and 11pm news. That’s it. Now it’s news channels running 24/7

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        7 months ago

        And that’s honestly a not-insignificant part of why everything is so fucked up and polarized now.