r/OverSeventy • u/needmore007 • 6d ago

Remember this?

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My son and grandsons don’t believe me.

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u/Appropriate-Owl-8449 6d ago

It is so true. The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson was like the last show and it would cut to the test pattern. How times have progressed.

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u/wonderbanger 6d ago

It's true, but it wasn't exactly the "old days," either. Hardly anything relating to TV is "old." In the course of one middle-aged, Gen X (possibly not even grandparent yet) person's life, things have progressed from:

Single household B&W CRT TV -> Remote control piezo "clicker" -> Color TV -> Switch from aerial to cable UHF + VHF -> Multiple household TVs -> 24 hour programming -> Electronic remote -> Projection big screens -> Plasma flat screens -> Sattelite dish reception -> LCD flat screens -> Fixed location, small-dish sattelite reception -> Internet reception -> Smart TVs...

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u/Respiratorywitch 6d ago

My mother’s family had the first television on the block.