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The sounds like a hilarious parody of modern telemetry. But then, the fact the Netflix used to work by mailing you DVDs also sounds silly to modern ears. I don'
by dTal 5y ago
The sounds like a hilarious parody of modern telemetry. But then, the fact the Netflix used to work by mailing you DVDs also sounds silly to modern ears. I don't entirely trust my intuition on what the 90s were capable of.
- kalleboo 5y agoIn the 50's, TV ratings were automatically collected on a 16mm film camera attached to your TV and mailed weekly back to HQ, in exchange for free TV repair https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nielsen_ratings#Measuring_ratings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nielsen_ratings#Measuring_rati...