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Why does it look like it was made in the 80s?
by neodypsis 4y ago
Why does it look like it was made in the 80s?
- renewiltord 4y agoIt's supposed to imitate this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rF4BCMs-8BE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rF4BCMs-8BE
- scotty79 4y agoIt doesn't explain why 2011 invention looks like 1960 jank.
- worthless-trash 4y agoIts probably a combination of "this shouldnt look like regular tv" and "This needs to work reliably in really crappy situations". The font also looks like the subtitles that some local teletex stations used to use. I wonder how much of that broadcast is teletex/subtitle aligned to work well. If it had some smooth jazz with helvetica playing in the background I wouldn't take it seriously. That EAS font (to me a foreigner) screams "This isn't daytime television".
- sokoloff 4y agoAmusing that that alert for Washington DC has an “effective until” time in mm/dd/yy format and in Pacific Standard Time (3 hours behind DC’s Eastern Standard Time).