The web is dead, we replaced with portable cable TV where you scroll up to change channel.

xtracto 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Glad to see I'm not the one that sees the similarity in "zapping" or channel surfing to what people do nowadays with those shorts...

I remember my brother loving to do channel surfing in the 80s when we were young. I've always hated it! maybe that's why I cannot stand the current Tiktok media format (so sad that Youtube is pushing more and more the same format).

Also, remember when telephones started and people who took vertical video where seen as sinners? How times change!

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agumonkey 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

a cable TV where anybody can poison your brain with whatever benefit them

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tartoran 10 hours ago | parent [-]

Any state sponsored actor can pay to play.

	▲	agumonkey 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I'd be curious to know how much cable tv content was direct propaganda or hype on youtube most of what i see is hyped hyperbolic content, polarized podcasts, shorts.. the way and reason why "content" is produced has changed

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bdangubic 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

whats a cable tv?

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bigbuppo 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It's how we got our internet before the internet.

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apublicfrog 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's what Americans call non free to air television. You're probably being downvoted because it's intrensic there and they assume you must know about it.

	▲	noumenon1111 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It is indeed intrinsic here in America. Pretty much all houses that have been occupied in the last 50 years have at least one coax cable coming out of a wall jack or a corner of the floor. MoCA adapters allow for a nice home networking backbone in a house like that.

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mcphage 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's like TikTok but you hit buttons instead of swiping.

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bdangubic 9 hours ago | parent [-]

that sounds like a lot of work

	▲	pndy 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Nearly same thing but instead of smacking the screen you'd actually press the physical button on remote control and run in circles with channel's list to find anything remotely interesting.
	▲	mcphage 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		The trick is you hold the controller in your limp hands, with your fingertip resting on one of the channel buttons. Usually the plus. So when you want to swipe you just extend your index finger just a fraction of an inch. And the screen changes. They dialed in the interface over years, and have gotten it to a process with almost no work involved.

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hagbard_c 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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