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My 90s TV: Browse 90s Television
- agumonkey 6y agoSome times I want to set earth UTC to some year between 70-99 and wake up with news as if it was today.
- corysama 6y agoFrom the menu, hit P to turn on Playlist Mode. That should default to on. Without that, it seems to just play one vid on repeat until you "change channels".
- bitwize 6y agoOoooh, nice-talgic! I'm reminded of the fact that the menus for the DVD release of Wayne's World (1992) were an approximate replica of the Prevue Guide of the day -- a channel dedicated to (Amiga-generated!) scrolling program listings for your particular cable system. The DVD menus even displayed movie trailers in the upper half for other Paramount DVD releases, the same way Prevue did for movies showing on premium movie channels.
- droptablemain 6y agoThis is fun.
- xtiansimon 6y agoYeah. Real tv was much more boring. Haha
- violetgarden 6y agoI even like the commercials! You don’t realize how slick everything is nowadays. It’s kinda nice to see something simpler.
- brassattax 6y agoIt is missing this: https://battaglia.ddns.net/twc/ https://battaglia.ddns.net/twc/
- j3th9n 6y agoComments on this from 5 years ago, just for reference: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10308004 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10308004
- pan69 6y agoThere's some pretty explicit stuff in there. https://my90stv.com/#t91RVPnehDo https://my90stv.com/#t91RVPnehDo
- SV_BubbleTime 6y agoNothing like that was on any TV i watched in the 90s. Seems like something that I would have heard poorly described by some friend who had a giant sat dish in their yard and figured out how to reposition it when Dad wasn’t home.
- disgrunt 6y agoThis link took me to a Nine Inch Nails music video.
- jandrese 6y agoIt's so eurotrash I can't believe they're singing in English. When I was growing up this is what I imagined Cable TV must be like.
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- boomboomsubban 6y agoI love the way each channel change takes you to a new webpage, meaning you need to press "back" button multiple times to leave. Truly makes it feel like the 90's.
- homero 6y agoNow it's back, try escaping linkedin
- lqet 6y agoIt's actually just changing the hash.
- schwartzworld 6y agoThis is 100% the right way to handle routing in single-page apps. The back button should work the exact same way it does in a server side render app
- SirLotsaLocks 6y agoI love coming across things like this. This is what makes the internet so cool to me, being able to just watch tv from decades ago completely wild.
- personlurking 6y agoI realize this is a site about the past, but I really hope this is the future. I want an internet of specialty sites, browsable curations, diversity of offering, freedom of choice, and full of the quirky/unusual. It might have to do with growing up in the 90s and experiencing that kind of world wide web, w/o walled gardens. Several years back, perhaps even via an HN post or comment, I came across a blog, hosted on a university network (IIRC, perhaps related to media studies). The page consisted of a group of possibly graduate students contributing some of the weirdest and most obscure media I've ever seen online. Nothing obscene and nothing seemingly new/current, so it was rather hipster in that sense, but I kick myself for not having saved the URL. Nothing says I need to use walled gardens or get my news from the big networks, but I often feel I'm being pointed that way. In the end, I just want something different than what's usually being served up. (It doesn't escape me that this 90's TV site is full of walled garden/big network type content of the time)
- oscargrouch 6y agoHuman societies must have a free road to organize themselves and grow in a organic way. Unfortunately our virtual world are built in a way to addict us with content we create ourselves giving a few monopolists total control of our virtual presence. I'm boarded in a project to think in another approach, in a way the give us more power and freedom to shape our virtual collective consciousness.. Without us figuring out a way to get us all out of this trap, i don't see a very bright future for us, and the current political and social status-quo are a clear sign of what all this is making to us. The power and control is too concentrated in the hands of a few, and its easier than ever to pull all the strings from a couple of places. Eg. If we have a dozens of key people to agree into some plan to permanent power and control, it will be impossible for us to take our freedom back, of course it will not look like any sort of government that we have witnessed before. I know this is a conspiracy theory and i dont like it myself, but its pretty possible and easier to happen with all the technological status-quo and tech monopolies we have nowadays.
- acatsdream 6y agoLet us be stronger.
- dre85 6y agoJust out of curiosity, where is all of this content coming from?
- mhh__ 6y agoYouTube, or at least some of it is. On mobile it doesn't work properly and you can see the borders and titles from YouTube.
- JohnJamesRambo 6y agoI hit 1993 and David Letterman came on and I’m awash in nostalgia for what seems like such a simpler, happier time. People liked each other. They could concentrate longer than three seconds. Dave and Paul are genuinely laughing and everything is all right. What a fantastic website.
- f430 6y agomaybe ppl were happier in a sense that ignorance is bliss. they simply did not have access to information like we have.
- mypalmike 6y agoWe also didn't have access to targeted disinformation campaigns at the same scale. There's a lot of angry ignorance spreading these days.
- CyberDildonics 6y agoA year after the Los Angeles riots due to four officers being acquitted of excessive force even though they were recorded beating a single black man on the ground?
- f430 6y agoI distinctly remember the damage to Korean businesses during this time (sacrificed everything to come to America and start business in dangerous low income ghettos and proceeded to lose it all without the government helping) which seems to be an after thought very much like the businesses damaged by subset of BLM rioters but the difference is the rate and speed of information that distinctly produce a very different state of the collective mind. The reason 90s were much simpler times were because all we had was the TV, mainstream news media outlets, which we know today as far removed from actual journalism. You could turn it off and read a book or play video games (which also suffer from the curse of connectivity today and makes multiplayer a lot more toxic experience).
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- amlib 6y agoNow the next step is to add a VCR so I can take a bathroom break and then keep watching from where I left off :)
- jackvalentine 6y agoBut only after the program you were watching finishes!
- sircastor 6y agoReminds me of the betamaxmas site I stumbled across a few years back. It’s not hard to forget what watching television used to be like. I’m still caught by surprise at how many commercials there are in a given broadcast.
- cheezeburger 6y agoOne of the coolest things I've seen so far this year. "Have you seen The Rock vs Ken Shamrock for the Intercontinental Title on Raw last night ?" Man ... I miss all this.
- cheezeburger 6y agoDid y'all know Ben Shapiro was in a boys band in his previous career ? -> https://my90stv.com/#q3qDESAvzh0 https://my90stv.com/#q3qDESAvzh0
- smaili 6y agoFondest 90s TV for me was TGIF, no better way to end the week then sitting with your family in front of the TV on Fridays watching those shows.
- kilroy123 6y agoSame here! Then in the late 90s it was Friends, Frasier, and Seinfeld.
- hallman76 6y agoIf this hits you in the nostalgia, check out this project[1]. It uses raspberry pis to broadcast content over "channels" using existing coax to simplify finding something good to watch. [1] https://hackaday.com/2020/02/07/raspberry-pi-serves-up-24-hour-simpsons-channel/ https://hackaday.com/2020/02/07/raspberry-pi-serves-up-24-ho...
- easton 6y agoAlternatively, this project hooks up to an existing Plex server and allows you to build channels that can then be connected to over the network (VLC, or anything else that can take a stream, including Plex’s live tv function). https://github.com/vexorian/dizquetv https://github.com/vexorian/dizquetv
- hallman76 6y agoWe're getting closer and closer to this commercial from the late 90s for Quest Communications https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZ9qcp6Lcno https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZ9qcp6Lcno
- GizmoSwan 6y agoIt is awesome. Watched 1990s computer chronicles East Coast Vs West coast quiz test with 1990s computer gurus. It was filmed in World Trade Center. It had Bill Gates in it!
- onedr0p 6y agoI've been bingeing Computer Chronicles on YouTube, as someone who was born in the late 80s and started really getting involved with computers in the early 2000s it fascinates me.
- npunt 6y agoI got sucked into that one as well and then went to the internet archive to watch some others. It was called the Computer Bowl: http://tcm.computerhistory.org/computerbowl.html http://tcm.computerhistory.org/computerbowl.html
- pcdoodle 6y agoThis is super awesome!
- game_the0ry 6y agoI really miss the 90s. Is it just me or did the mood of the times have a sense levity and optimism that just isn't present today in 2021? I think so and I see it in the older tv shows.
- bestnameever 6y agoI've always thought something shifted after 9/11.
- parenthesis 6y agoThe teenagers and young adults in the 90s were for the first time too young to remember the woes of the 70s. The cold war was over, but pre 9/11. Coordinated global action can solve environmental problems (phasing out of CFCs). Turns out CO2 emissions not such an easy problem to solve. Rave / House music culture based on euphoric togetherness rather than sex and violence. The economically rising east asian nations giving the west ever more affordable consumer goods, but not yet threatening US domination of the world order (especially after the bubble in Japan burst). The utopian promise of the `information super highway'.
- alisonkisk 6y agoNearly everybody is nostalgic for their youth.
- halayli 6y agocoincidentally, I was just looking at Puffer project couple days ago when I was remembering how I used to couch surf and flip channels instantly. https://puffer.stanford.edu https://puffer.stanford.edu
- TedDoesntTalk 6y agoHow editable are the resources/content to make an 80s and a 70s version?
- paranoidrobot 6y agoThere's already links on the page to the 70s and 80s version of the site.
- disillusioned 6y agoThere was a fantastic site which was basically exactly this called YouTube Time Machine. You could select the categories and the year and it was magical. This is a pretty good facsimile of that! Wish they had 50s and 60s as well, but still.
- KingFelix 6y agoThis is great
- WaldoLydecker 6y agoWhy is it that access to unlimited content leads to most people watching the worst content ever made, so much so that other people forget that good content exists?
- erickhill 6y agoI know this says 90s, but when I see Max Headroom that's solidly 80s yo. Like, totally.
- derwiki 6y agoEncino is, like, so bitchin!
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- CTOSian 6y agodef need some b/w filter, just for more "retro" feel
- micheljansen 6y agoInteresting that you mention that. I grew up with colour TV so I associate black and white with faux retro.
- UncleSlacky 6y agoThe 70s version has a B/W button on the TV.
- amelius 6y agoLots of "this video is unavailable". The Internet Archive should really start archiving youtube videos too. (And youtube should have an api to detect whether the video is available or not)
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- 1MachineElf 6y agoIs the English-dubbed version of the original Japanese Iron Chef show on here? Would love to see some full episodes. That one has been hard to find.
- cambalache 6y agoCool site, well done. Too bad all the crap added by youtube kills the immersion
- DavideNL 6y agoGreat, would be cool if you could set the language too... :)
- jeegsy 6y agoI really really miss stumbleupon. This site is pretty cool though...those 90s music videos were so....those were the times