Things you could have never imagined 40 years ago

That I could be wrong.

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Originally Posted by Meadow Skipper

^ tube tester - now there’s a blast from the past.

My last crt tv required two people to pick it up.

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The last one I saw for "free" by the side of the road was only 2 years ago.

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Originally Posted by riser4

Ya. Big markets also had some independents that showed a lot of syndicated reruns. Slowly those moved into smaller places. And then Fox and CW and WB and UPI, and some others came along. And cable expanded further into the sticks.

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Right
I was lucky that we lived on the outer edge of the NYC media market so we had 5 channels to choose from but the 2 independents and PBS were noticeably fuzzier than the networks. My brother would make our little sister sit right next to the TV to adjust the antenna and change channels.

That I'm fragile.

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Originally Posted by MakersTeleMark

That I could be wrong.

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That a 59 y.o. would be No. 1 on Maxim's Hot 100 list.