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When I was a kid, well before the internet, one of the three TV networks would play a movie on Sunday nights. Even if the movie were old, it was intoxicating to
by sowbug 3y ago
When I was a kid, well before the internet, one of the three TV networks would play a movie on Sunday nights. Even if the movie were old, it was intoxicating to know that all my friends were watching exactly the same thing at the same time, and that we'd get to talk about it at school on Monday. There were zero ambient co-presence signals, but the magic still happened. I don't know where that magic came from.
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- terminous 3y agoThis is the magic of broadcast media oligopolies. There was a co-presence signal, but it had a 12-24 hour delay. It was called "the water cooler." You quickly learned what everyone else was watching and if you had picked the wrong network for that timeslots.