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before there was Viewmaster there was a stick with a card mount at one end, a pair of lenses at the other end, and what you had to do was load a card that had two nearly identical images on the card mount then look into the binocular lenses for a pseudo-3D effect.

#imnotsayingimoldbut i learnt CECIL and BASIC and binary in computer studies. I used microfiche to do research at college.

#ImNotSayingImOldBut I frequented two different B&W TVs on my childhood

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I will stay on the topic of landlines.

I upgraded from a 36.6k modem to 56k modem for faster internet connection speeds.

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#ImNotSayingImOldBut I remember this joke:

If 10 birds are a flock
And 10 fish a school
What are 10 buffalo?

A Bison-tennial 🤣

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I remember when movies on pre-recorded media were very expensive ($80-$100 in the early 1980s) so by the time the 1990s came round, I had one, maybe two pre-recorded tapes (and one that had a special sleeve with some words about "scientific value" on the tape, but we all knew it was porn ;o) and a whole bunch of tapes manually recorded at EP speed because "by golly they said it was 6 hours; I'm GETTING 6 hours on here!"

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#ImNotSayingImOldBut the first computer I encountered had 32K of RAM, no GUI, and stored data on a 5.25" floppy as the *fancy* option - and I thought it was the most amazing thing I'd ever seen 😁
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I was a Rod Serling fan before there was a Twilight Zone. How? Playhouse 90. A couple of Twilight Zone episodes first appeared on Playhouse 90.



there's the matter of recycling a cast. Case in point is some of the cast of Car 54 Where Are You got recycled as The Munsters.


Of all the old TV material that execs haven't been able to reboot or recycle is Playhouse 90.


I notice when TV does a "reboot" they're doing a recycle and they don't always announce it. America's Got Talent is just a recycled Ted Mack's Amateur Hour.



there was a time when radio was THE place to be for experimenters. Getting a license to experiment with radio was the bee's knees and was actually fun. Today, amateur radio is just buying appliances.

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