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The web is dead, we replaced with portable cable TV where you scroll up to change channel.
by manoDev 9mo ago
The web is dead, we replaced with portable cable TV where you scroll up to change channel.
- bdangubic 9mo agowhats a cable tv?
- bigbuppo 9mo agoIt's how we got our internet before the internet.
- hagbard_c 9mo ago[flagged]
- mcphage 9mo agoIt's like TikTok but you hit buttons instead of swiping.
- bdangubic 9mo agothat sounds like a lot of work
- pndy 9mo agoNearly same thing but instead of smacking the screen you'd actually press the physical button on remote control and run in circles with channel's list to find anything remotely interesting.
- mcphage 9mo agoThe trick is you hold the controller in your limp hands, with your fingertip resting on one of the channel buttons. Usually the plus. So when you want to swipe you just extend your index finger just a fraction of an inch. And the screen changes. They dialed in the interface over years, and have gotten it to a process with almost no work involved.
- apublicfrog 9mo agoIt's what Americans call non free to air television. You're probably being downvoted because it's intrensic there and they assume you must know about it.
- noumenon1111 9mo agoIt is indeed intrinsic here in America. Pretty much all houses that have been occupied in the last 50 years have at least one coax cable coming out of a wall jack or a corner of the floor. MoCA adapters allow for a nice home networking backbone in a house like that.
- agumonkey 9mo agoa cable TV where anybody can poison your brain with whatever benefit them
- tartoran 9mo agoAny state sponsored actor can pay to play.
- agumonkey 9mo agoI'd be curious to know how much cable tv content was direct propaganda or hype on youtube most of what i see is hyped hyperbolic content, polarized podcasts, shorts.. the way and reason why "content" is produced has changed
- BirAdam 9mo agoDirect propaganda? Not too much. However, the amount of content in the 1980s and 1990s that was in some way funded by the DOD was a bit crazy. Likewise, stuff like NED funded content. If one considers corporations part of the state, then the percentage of content that was propaganda would likely be more than 40%. Today, this would be harder to figure. Because anyone can use a VPN and pose as a person in any country, any country’s intelligence people could be carrying out misinformation/disinformation campaigns at any time. How much of the left or right content on FB that mom is reading is from genuine actors vs intelligence actors? How many calls for violent action on the left and right are just FBI entrapment or Russian attempts to destabilize the USA? When all of this was being built, this angle never occurred to me. It should have, but it didn’t. I naively thought, as so many did, that the ability of people to connect across national boundaries, across racial and gender lines, and across socio-economic divides would lead to a better, safer, and happier world. Sadly, I was completely mistaken. The internet became worse than life AFK on those fronts, people joined echo chambers, and radicalism increased.
- xtracto 9mo agoGlad to see I'm not the one that sees the similarity in "zapping" or channel surfing to what people do nowadays with those shorts... I remember my brother loving to do channel surfing in the 80s when we were young. I've always hated it! maybe that's why I cannot stand the current Tiktok media format (so sad that Youtube is pushing more and more the same format). Also, remember when telephones started and people who took vertical video where seen as sinners? How times change!
- ruszki 9mo agoI still consider them as inconsiderate. You can watch a horizontal video on every screen with more, or equal detail. That's not true for vertical videos. But at least, we could experience first hand that laziness beats thoughtfulness, when people are allowed to.
- deleted 9mo ago[deleted]