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Sad millennial sigh

O_O we may have had the same model. Unfortunately I don't have any pictures and I wouldn't be able to identify the car model. I just remember vague "it was a car"; I can't even remember if it popped open hinged at the back or front.

and then the VHS got tangled and nearly broke and do you even know how it was with only 3 channels and blah blah blah.....

We lived in the sticks where there was no cable. We had something called “Preview” which broadcast uncut movies over an encrypted OTA signal. It didn’t last for more than a few years.

We had 3 local stations, one didn't come on the air till noon

I’m old enough that my earliest childhood TVs had tubes. I remember the annoyance of having to wait for the tubes to “warm up” while the screen was black, sound only. And of course, they burnt out like light bulbs.

You think you have weird stuff with your internet toilets? We had cartoon Bruce Willis as an 11 year old kid taking spy missions from giant cgi Bruce Willis (yes, the therapy bills are still coming in) while going on said missions with one of the sexiest voices alive! Hey, get back here I’m not don

Oh and also, I remember when they started a SECOND TV CHANNEL. Exciting times.

Don't forget about watching the TV guide channel to try and find something to watch and then sometimes just end up watching whatever is on the TV guide instead. It started as ads, before actually adding actual shows to their channel. How did Weeds end up on a channel that's for everyone anyway?

No. They did it because there were only so many channels available. "Airwaves" was literal.

We didn't have cable for like 13 years when I was a kid. So it was 4 channels if they were all coming in.

I had two and a half. SBS would work after dark, but didn't really tune in during the day.

There's Star Wars, Star Trek, Stargate, and Battlestar Galactica. Only four things.