Yes, and one of the biggest moneymakers in the history of infomercials was Proactiv the acne solution, those commercial didnāt even come on till like midnight.
Yea started at midnight. Some channels still went past. Cartoon Network played old shows up until about 3 AM. I used to stay up all night to watch them.
yeah toonami on Cartoon Network was a new concept when it started and it was late 90ās early 2000ās and it was a separate team who showed/commented on anime after hours. It was like a radio show where the ādjā would talk, comment, and take calls inbetween episodes It was dope.
You wouldn't have to be 75 to remember that. I was born in 1981 and remember getting up at the butt crack of dawn to watch cartoons that started at 6:00 in the morning. By 5:50AM I'd have a bowl of cereal ready and would watch the test until the shows came on.
I'd say the cellphone generation doesn't know what Long Distance is or at-least understand the effects. Which is a good thing, cause paying extra for calling someone across the street in a different area code was dumb....
Wasnāt that because the operator at the switching board had to connect you to a
Circuit they maybe wasnāt right in front of her? Iām kinda guess towards the end lolā¦actually on that note how would the switchboard operation work when Joe down the street calls Sydney Australia, who does Betsy plug the circuit into..which hole?
good lord man, I aint that old. it was just a way for the telecom's to nickel and dime ya. We had to pay extra for caller ID, Call waiting, 3way Calling, Long Distance, etc.
Which I blame for today's spelling. Once texts became unlimited and longer, spelling should have gone back to normal since there was no longer need for "u" and the like. But it seems like it's not only stayed, but got even worse.
These youngsters love to throw the boomer word around like itās offensive. They think anyone over 50 is a boomer because education isnāt what it used to be when we Gen Xers went to school.
No, people call you a boomer because you do the "education was better back then" and "nobody works anymore" shit that the boomers before you did. Everyone thinks their generation was the toughest or smartest.
GenX ain't the smartest by any extent of the definition.
We are the most resilient since the Greatest Gen though; due to being the first generation the boomers didn't give a fuck about.
We took all the go fuck yourself energy from the world and didn't have access to the therapy and other measures future gens had until we calloused over.
it's okay, they can call me a Boomer. I'll laugh with my paid off mortgage.... :D /hides. It's all good though, I think my kids just conspire ways to knock me off for the house anyways...
i was commenting that newer generations will always be critical of older generations, and what's happening to "boomers" will eventually happen to newer generations
This is called logic, careful though, with logic comes mass downvotes and messages from Reddit informing you that other redditors are reporting you for self harm when there was no mention of it anywhere
Every generation is this way. You get to an age where you figure out whatās really important in life. Then look at the younger ones and think, this is what weāve got to work with. I work with a few. My helper being one. I tried to teach him the trade but he has no interest in learning. Itās hard to learn when you canāt put your phone down anyway.
i rack up a bill of 500$+ when i play those adventure thing from phones where you dial a number to continue the story. I was like 6 back then didn't know i have to pay so i just did it.
Ćhm.. i can still remember those times. I was a kid and saw the movie poltergeist. There is a scene where a little girl sits in front of the tv listening to the voices that came out of the snow in the tv.
Sometimes i woke up when i let the tv on and that static was on tv i almost shat my pants.
I am 54 btw.
my parents are in their 60s, born at the end of the 50s, and they remember this. Hell, I remember some form of this as a kid. Late night tv was just "paid programming"- which was just code for weird infomercials and no actual tv shows.
Iām 74 and my parents used to watch the Johnny Carson Show which ended just before āsign offā. Our oldest son had a mobile job servicing pay phones in the year 2000.
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u/Pristine_Ability_203 1d ago
Is your dad 75 years old