I cut the cord around 2010-2012 I think. > Cable reminiscing is often tied to nostalgia for cable's always-on, varied, and unpredictable nature. When I was yo

I cut the cord around 2010-2012 I think. > Cable reminiscing is often tied to nostalgia for cable's always-on, varied, and unpredictable nature. When I was young in the 80's, we had cable, and the above was true back then. Around 2010 I think that stopped. Infomercials everywhere late at night. Channels losing their identity by giving in to the then-prevalent reality craze and trying to hold eyeballs by acquiring shows not core to their identity. When my bill became $200 I took a look at what I really watched on cable - and it wasn't much. A few shows on the Food Network and that was it. Most of my media time since I got broadband internet was YouTube. I never watched much sports or cable TV news, so that wasn't a reason for me to keep it. So I went to Internet only. It sucks that things are fragmented across services, but it's much better from a cost perspective. It's easy to cancel services, and I don't need a $100 basic or premium package to get individual movie channels, which is how I remember it working. For example, if you wanted STARZ, that would be $10 a month, but you'd need to have the basic+premium services first. Now, if something I want to see is on STARZ, I can join, watch it, and cancel it a month later. The article references this Reddit post https://www.reddit.com/r/Zillennials/comments/1losonr/anyone_else_here_still_prefer_live_tv_to_streaming/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Zillennials/comments/1losonr/anyone... which talks about missing the experience of live TV. I do kinda miss that, but it's not worth a $200 cable bill.