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Originally posted by Ar-Cunin:
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Originally posted by Rokenn:
And sure, we had cable television, but back then that was only like 20 channels and there was no onscreen menu! You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on!
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20 channels [img]graemlins/wow.gif[/img] When I grew up, I had to make due with three channels - one danish [img]smile.gif[/img] - and two swedish [img]graemlins/1puke.gif[/img] 
[/QUOTE]Three channels? Bejeezus, but you had it easy. I only had 1 channel. There wasn't any CABLE thingy. We had this mile high antenna (not really, but it was tall to me when I was growing up) and we were so far from the tv stations that were broadcasting (local ones at that, nothing like those cable ones you could get from some other city let alone another state) that we only got one station. Even so, the station didn't always come in too good and I was used to "ghost" images. When the VCR's came out, I thought they were the best thing since sliced bread (Couldn't afford one though, but did have a friend that had one.) There wasn't any ghost images with that. It was several years before I saw the Atari 2600 and it was pretty cool. I got one when I was 17. There was no internet back then, heck, there wasn't any computers back then unless you were a business or were military. Calculators were these big adding machines that didn't have a display like they do today. I remember when I was a junior in high school, they came out with these large bulky calculators that could only add/subtract/multiply/divide. There wasn't any memory features on them. As for libraries, I remember it was a half day affair to look up even the simplest thing because when you went there, there was a whole bunch of other kids looking up the same/similar thing. We had to wait until they were done with the book so we could look up the same stuff.
EDIT: Oh yeah, and phone calls. If you wanted to call someone, you had to dial with a rotary phone, because they didn't have a tone dial phone. God help you if you messed it up, cause then you had to start all back over again from the beginning.
[ 01-12-2003, 07:25 AM: Message edited by: Tobbin ]