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We used to have two TV's when I was growing up - a colour one where the sound didn't work, and a black and white one with working sound.
Of course, you had to make sure they were both tuned to the same channel. But since there were only three channels to choose from, and at least one of those didn't broadcast more than half the time, it wasn't too much of a problem. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Three channels, you were spoilt we had to make do with 2 channels.
And you try and tell the young people of today that ... they won't believe you
modified 7-Apr-21 21:05pm.
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2 Channels? You were lucky!
The best we could get was Mono ...
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Two channels ... Mono .... Hmmm, I think we are getting into Monty Python's the 'Four Yorkshiremen Sketch Area' here.
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I'm up there in years, myself. TV, however, had channel 2,4,5,7,9,11 and an iffy 13. Somewhere in my pre-teens, I think, "UHF" was made mandatory and the availble tuning range expanded from 2-13 to 2-13+uhf and 14-83 (on a separate dial) when the VHF was set to the UHF selection. It was years before anything actually appeared on UHF. Vertical Hold, Horizontal Hold and fine-tuning
Color TVs were a months pay, for what color there was (both in terms of very few broadcasts and quality). Unless one bought one of the plastic overlays that converted one's B&W into color.
Golden days - when people dressed as MD's were on TV Ads for cigarettes touting their favorite brand.
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I always remember turning the channel control to 9 to watch ITV, I still call ITV channel 9 (in those moments of mental confusion) which tends to baffle folks.
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Funny how the young folks look at you when you talk about life without a smartphone. I am old enough to remember sitting by the radio and listening to Jack Benny. Then the air raid warden came by and said he could see light coming from our window. Our little town was so remote an enemy bomber could never have found it without GPS (NIY) 
I don't think my grandchildren could go 2 hours without their phone. I often leave mine behind when I go for my walks, it is like a leash.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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theoldfool wrote: I don't think my grandchildren could go 2 hours without their phone. I often leave mine behind when I go for my walks, it is like a leash.
Similar, and people keep being surprised that I not always pick up the phone.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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I ALWAYS answer the phone - never miss an opportunity to be rude to someone. I am continually disappointed by the lack of spam calls on my phone.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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theoldfool wrote: I don't think my grandchildren could go 2 hours without their phone
2 hours??
I don't have kids myself (let alone grandkids), but I was watching some interview a good while ago, where the interviewer took away some kid's phone, and within 20 seconds she quite literally didn't know what to do with herself, was getting fidgety and practically shut down. The interviewer gave her the phone back, and it's like you would've flipped a switch.
With or without phone, she never made eye contact with the interviewer. These kids people are raising are broken and unable to function.
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I do not remember those milestones (never payed attention to the number of members), but do remember b/w tube TVs, using one of them as monitor for years...
But still feel young 
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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"You are as young as the woman you feel"
Until the wife finds out, and then you'll never grow older ...
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Marc Clifton wrote: Now: 14,819,111 members
And probably almost 100,000 of those aren't spammers or key-mashing bot-trolls.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I consider myself young, but I also remember that I had the best PC in school with a Pentium II and 500 GB storage, a real beast!
It wasn't hard to have the best PC back then, most people didn't even own one or had one PC for the entire family (making it more of a FC I guess).
That said, I didn't step onto the stage until Windows 95, I was 7 or 8 years old at the time 
On CP, I think I signed up when there were already 10,000,000 members and that was ten years ago
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Sander Rossel wrote: I think I signed up when there were already 10,000,000 members
Nope, you were "Member 7605910", and signed up about two years after I did ... the member homepage tells you all this.
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So it does! I was only off by 2,500,000
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That's close enough for government work!
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I joined just before we reached 200,000 members way back in the first decade of this millennium.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Is someone who writes horror movies a ghost writer?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Do they format their stories in JaSON[^]?
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Such ideas are often spooken about in a spirited yet crypt-ic manner, and then, intern, buried in the archives.
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Dunno, I'll ask my mummy! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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Prolly someone with "zombie in your head".
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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I Kuntz reply mon, ah not be King but I do Love 'te craft...
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