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As if 30 years ago kids weren't massive consumers of television and advertising content?
by umvi 5y ago
As if 30 years ago kids weren't massive consumers of television and advertising content?
- hn_throwaway_99 5y agoThis sentiment often comes up on this topic, and it's a false equivalence. Television and advertising execs from 30 years ago didn't have the sheer massive volume of interactive data that the internet provides - TV from 30 years ago didn't know you were watching, and more importantly didn't change the program schedule based on what you, individually, watched. TV from 30 years ago also didn't have legions of extremely highly paid PhDs scouring data whose sole job it is is to get 9 year olds hooked into watching more content.
- DonHopkins 5y ago57 years ago back in 1965 there was Soupy Sales and those "funny green pieces of paper with pictures of U.S. Presidents". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-OGy3Kh7yM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-OGy3Kh7yM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soupy_Sales#New_Year's_Day_incident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soupy_Sales#New_Year's_Day_inc...