Someone Asks Older People “What Is Something Today’s Youth Would Never Understand” And 35 People Deliver

I grew up on just the three channels. Channel 4 came later for us. And it was ok. There was good original content rather than all the trashy reality and repeat shows. Saturday night was a family occasion in front of the TV because there was always something good to watch that had a broad appeal from Grandma down to Grandkids. Hardly watch TV these days, it all seems a bit low-budget compared to the likes of Only Fools & Horses, Porridge, Monty Python, Fawlty Towers etc.

ARD, ZDF and West3 in my case - and yes, the program ended in the evening with a loud beep and only showed the test screen until next morning.

Yes, but it was four channels of good, not 600 channels of garbage and repeats!!

I had RTE1 and RTE2 that was all :)

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Philadelphia, PA USA... 1960's... Chs 3, 6, 10 and 12. That was it until the UHF came bigger and we got 17, 29 and 48. When cable came out it was like 100 channels and nothing on. Then it got decent. Well, it was decent. No more M in MTV, all the Discovery based channels have mostly drivel and a lot have drama length infomercials on.

I think you are missing the point: this isn't about variety, it's about the fact that those shows _used to be_ quality programming.

Wow! Four channels?! We had one in Denmark! (and sometimes one of the Swedish channels, if we could get the antenna on top of the TV in just the right position)

When I was a child we had BBC and ITV. Just the two channels

When I was a kid (8). We got our first TV in '72 and we only had BBC1, BBC2 and ITV.

We had 2, 6, 9, 24, 35 & eventually 68(later became 18), and religious channel 55 which was ignored. Sometimes we got 23 and for a little while 43 which became a shopping channel I think. When I finally got to watch cable I also remember MTV and VH1 playing music videos.

You must be younger than me.......we only had ITV and BBC 1

When I was a younger child, we just had what you could pull in with an antenna, which was the three major commercial networks: ABC, CBS, and NBC, our local PBS (Public Broadcasting System), and a handful of local channels. I was probably around 8 when we got cable TV. I remember when MTV debuted playing the same few music videos over and over because there just weren't that many to play.

No, unless I am paid to sleep with my phone

Its called do not disturb mode and it goes on the second I go to bed.

I grew up with a dad from the silent generation (before the boomers). The only reason we had so many phones was because he had to be available to answer that phone whenever.

My phone gets it's own pillow (big bed as I move around too much from stress sleep). Unfortunately I'm not paid enough to deal with it. Just kind of forced into "oh hey can you do me this favor?".

Still would not do this just turn the damned thing off!

Oh the Bless of Respect of when it was Ok to Call People!🙏🏻 If anybody called at Our House after 21.00-21.30,My Mum thought someone was dead for sure!!!!!😳😱 1970-

YES.

We sure do.👍

I don't know even that one, I let the phone do the remembering for me.

Catch me on the wrong day and I might not remember mine.

I stumble on mine too sometimes.

You know your own? That's an achievement. I always have to look mine up.

I know the people closest to me. So about 6. Just incase.

I still have to look mine up. Yes I entered myself in my contacts.

When remembering all of those phone numbers, I used to use mnemonics. It was actually fun.

As if everyone born in 1980 had access to a computer at age 11 ...

I was born in the early 1990s...still had to do reports from actual books. Only the rich people and fancy schools had internet at home. Hell our library only had 1 computer that had internet access back then and only one kid in our class had an Encarta CD. That kid was very popular.

My dad had a full collect-by-the-week encyclopedia set in binders so that was first port of call, then the library

Born in 1993, I did have Encarta, with a lot of content, but most of the times not the subjects from school

Holy crap I'd entirely forgot about Encarta!

We took a 3 credit, semester-long class in law school just to learn how to use all the different types of books required to do any kind of legal research. There were whole sets of books devoted to updating other books and even these would have pasted-in updates in them. You wouldn't dare cite a case without going through several additional levels, all requiring different sections of the library, to make sure no court had overturned it.

Naturally, when your song finally came on, the DJ would not shut up.

Then the DJ talked over the intro / outro

And the radio DJ would ALWAYS speak over the intro and into the outro. Always.

Doing mix tapes off the radio

And the DJ yapping over the entire intro.

Da Ya Think I'm Sexy? by Rod Stewart was one of them. Damn, that came out back in 1978.

Tape it - unknown till I got older!

No taping, in my generation. Tape recorders, for mass use, had not been invented.

Man, how many nights did I wait to get Angelsea by Cat Stephens on tape...still love that song.

waiting through 50 'top' ones for That song, and way before we had tapes

Rent

At Blockbuster, naturally

Not in my day--television was it.