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In 1976 you voted inside a steel machine by pulling a lever that closed a curtain behind you, moving small levers beside the names, and pulling the main…
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The Point Was Not the Cartoons. It Was the Control
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There were three channels, one television, and an adult who decided what was on it. Through…
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It Was the Only Way to Know What Was On
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There was no on-screen guide, no channel information, no banner, no menu and no way to…
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In 1960 a television was hundreds of components wired point to point by hand, by rows of women at benches, into a chassis that slid out of a…
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In 1965 almost every town of any size had its own television station, and it made a great deal of what it broadcast inside its own building -…
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An older relative calls the television remote the clicker, and the word sounds like nostalgia for a sound that modern remotes do not make.
It is not nostalgia.…