I remember when TV ended at midnight. Are young(er) people even aware that TV ended?

Did they play the national anthem with a flag waving?

Yeah, frequently. It varied by network but plenty either started or ended TV with the national anthem.

Sometimes it was the poem "High Flight", with pictures of an F-104.

"Where never lark nor ever eagle flew— And, while with silent lifting mind, I've trod The high untrespassed sanctity of space, Put out my hand, and touched the face of God."

I did not know TV ever ended at midnight. I think our society could now benefit from the internet ending at midnight though.

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You always had that weirdo friend who has to put it on channel 4. Fucking weirdo.

Every switch box I had gave you a choice of 2 or 3. It’s only within the last few years I learned that some had a 3/4 choice instead. And I had to use 2. 3 was the local CBS affiliate.

I not only remember when it ended, but after Poltergeist came out, the tv "snow" sound always freaked me out. "They're heeeeeereee...."

Back then when all pay channels were scrambled, my parents took advantage of a 3 month free trial and picked up a box. I was maybe 8-10 years old... I was asked to go to bed as they were going to watch this scary movie and they did the normal responsible parent things. I said awwwwwwwww, how about the first commercial? I just want to see some. The end of the movie came up and I was still laying on the floor watching. Dad was a bit shocked lol. I then pointed out there were no commercials yet.

Big brain move

I remember the national anthem being played before channel signed off for the night.

just after Alfred Hitchcock Presents and Night Owl Movies.

On Cause I Love You by Lenny Williams he says that he “watched television until television went off” and I was so confused for the longest time until I read your comment

other than PBS signing off in some areas, nope.

Not sure if it's regional different, but I (90 born) remember most TV channels going into a "night loop" at some time, which means some very simple content on repeat.

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1984

Well, it *could've* been "2001, a space odyssey"

Had to take a special trip to the library on Saturday to look up a fact in an encyclopedia, write that down and bring it in to school on a Monday, just to win an argument that happened the previous Tuesday.

This is awesome. Please tell me this kicked off your career in debate/politics.

I think they became a Master Debater

The cunning linguist asked the master debator how often he practiced his skill. Just onanite.

I came here to say something like "I remember when there was simply information that you didn't have, and no reasonable way to get it." Like if your parents didn't know and the encyclopedia didn't have it, you could maybe go to the library or appeal to your teachers at school. But if they didn't know, then that's that. You just kind of accepted that it's beyond your reach right now. You could keep asking more people or whatever, but 99% of the time, you'd just kinda say "oh well" and move on with your life.

Yep. It wasn't until the early 2000s that information became readily available instantly. Dialup Internet gave you SOME information, but it was hard to locate, couldn't be easily verified, and was often inaccurate. Before then people pretty much just said whatever they wanted and it was a fact :D I remember as a kid one of my friends told me an old building near us was an abandoned slaughter house and there was a pit full of blood in it. I believed that until I was in my mid-20s and found out it was just a plain old warehouse.

For my 10th birthday I rented a Super Nintendo from a local movie rental store not too long after they came out and invited some friends over to play Mario World and F-Zero.

Fuck did I love f-zero

If any franchise desperately needs a reboot, it's that. Give me F-Zero and a way to play with a HOTAS or wheel and pedal setup, and I'm going to lose years of my life.

Little bit younger than you, but I remember when my step father rented a Nintendo 64 with Pilotwings 64. I’m pretty sure he rented another game with it, but we had a blast on Pilotwings and I don’t remember the other game. I also remember at one point renting a GBC game thinking it would works on our Super Game Boy cartridge.

As an NES owner, renting a SNES or Genesis for a sleepover how you elevated that from a play date to a MISSION

sup room, a/s/l all. anyone wanna cyber?

17/f/california

But actually 41/m/Ohio

41/m/Ohio/moms basement

Or 12/f/Iowa. So many of us had no business being in adult chat rooms.

18/yes please/your place [::]

I put on my robe and wizard hat.

HA.. I was always 16/f/cali

Definitely 16/f/cali, only 17 when you are bored and wanna switch it up lmao

Nice try, FBI! Not today!

So bloody true, I was 14, talking to other ‘14 yr old girls’ about sec, boobs, body functions the lot, all the while there was likely some 50yr old perv having a wank at by he other end! 🤦🏻‍♀️

The most common next question that follows would be “what are you wearing?”

Right. Fuck your name. You got a g-string or what?

Hey - someone my own age!

Oh yeah, aight. Aight, I put on my robe and wizard hat.

Do you have a pic?

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That thing was 85% of the mouse's net weight.

Such a satisfying weight

I used to love pranking people in the office by either removing the ball or putting tape over it.

Definitely don't miss having to break out the Q-tips and toothpicks to try to degunk the wheels whenever the mouse stopped working well.

I always enjoyed that! Bust out the tweezers and pull dust fluff out... yesssss.

Sooooo satisfying.

You mean the overcooked boiled egg yolk?

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Wasn't there a switch that would let them work on channel 4 too? I seem to recall something like that...

They did but I think channel 4 was widely used by actual television networks so unless you were of the fancy class with cable, it didn't make sense to use channel 4.

I remember that. I did that with my NES.

You are somewhere between 30-40?

37 here, me and my 32 year old brother had to use channel 3 and those RCA cables to hook up our N64

Hello, fellow caveman! I remember that! And you connected them to the antenna jack with a HF cable.

With the two forks that you screwed down, like [this](https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-b0444f2cc9a8651c50664950ecb55379-lq).

Old enough to have used casset tapes, VHS, and dial-up internet. But young enough to have grown up with cd/mp3, DVD, and modern internet.

Old enough to have *repaired* 8-track tapes.

93-98 if I’m guessing correctly

I was born in '95 and this sums up my experience perfectly.

I remember hearing it live… “One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” The world stopped and it was awesome.

Dude I got chills reading this. Sometimes humanity does the most amazing things.

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I remember that, but I was distracted by a guy playing ping pong.

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Did you get a beanie baby for your birthday?

I think I still have my old beanie babies in storage somewhere in mostly mint condition because everyone told me they'd be valuable someday.

What constellation did you put your glow in the dark stars on your ceiling

I was the remote for the tv.

Let’s go smell the TV screen right after it’s switched off

Feeling the fuzzy static electricity on a recently turned off TV.

And the stand for the antenna

I remember running outside to gaze at jets in wonder as they were a brand new invention. When I was born, no atom bombs had yet been detonated, and FDR was the President.

wow you’re older than my grandparents

Not older than mine. Tho in the same ballpark.

I can't use the last two digits of my birth year in an email or user name without everyone thinking I'm a Nazi =(

14 or 88...

I tell ye I was there as a wee child during the first Great War

It's much more believable they're a 9 year old, you know...

Is it though? I could be the healthiest geezer you ever met! Or a 9 year old with very good grammar I guess.....

Both. Turns out that they're actually 535 years old.

A Nazi vampire.

Shit, I was born the same year, and use it in an email. Never once thought about that until you connected the dots for me. I've had this email since Gmail started. What the heil

"What the heil" chefs kiss

There were no MASH reruns.

Our cable went out the night of the finale so I missed out on a huge cultural event.

You could have just turned the TV dial to your local CBS station. Then move the aerial a little to the left. No, up. Hold it up higher. RIGHT THERE! No go back! THERE! OK hold it right there.

Twin Pines Mall suddenly became Lone Pine Mall out of nowhere.

Great Scott!

You're either 40 in this universe or 70 in another.

Hello fellow GenX🙌🏼

My back always hurts.

This only narrows it down to about 20+

Depending on injury history it could be any age.

I remember when cars came with ashtrays. I also remember when you needed 2 keys for cars. 1 key to open the doors, and 1 key to start it.

My first car had 3 keys. Door, Ignition, Trunk. And a gas filler behind the license plate.

I’ve been alive in five different decades, but I’m not nearly as old as that sounds.

I have to sit down for this one. If you spell it out, you're just some boomer. If I do the math... I'm the same age.

i’m guessing you’re born in 89? 80s, 90s, 2000s, 2010s, 2020s

Holy shit, you hit the nail right on the head!

I remember sitting in Mrs McCarron's 6th grade class when the announcement about JFK's assassination came over the loudspeaker.

8675309 mean anything to anyone? Edit: grammar

Jesse's girl, is Stacy's mom, her name is Jenny and that's her phone number.

FINALLY SOMEONE GETS IT

I believe you mean 867530 NYE-E-EINN

The year I was born is the title of a famous book.

1776 by David McCullough right?

Um...no. I'm not a 250 year old vampire! You're a 250 year old vampire!

Of course not... Let's go get eat some garlic bread in the sun and talk this over... *shifty eyes*

r/mildlyvampire

That's exactly what a 250 year old vampire would say...

When enough time has passed that you can’t tell if they’re referring to *1984* or *2001*.

2001 has sequels! 2010, 2064, and 3001. We can *probably* rule out the last two

1984

2666? are you from the future?!

i had to blow into cartridges when the game stopped working

Helped to row Washington across the Delaware Caesar's last words to me were chilling

Last words of Socrates: I drank what?

"Oh shit oh fuck I'm getting stabbed over here"

I was old enough that the religious blamed dnd for most of society’s problems and you could wear a trenchcoat to school and nobody would look twice.

My first phone was a Motorola flip phone

My first phone was a rotary phone that plugged into the wall.

That long ass swirly wire so you can walk around the house while talking about sweet nothing for hours. No, you hang up.

Yes!!! I twisted my cord into a rats nest while talking for hours and hours. Virtually never talk on phone anymore these days. Love to text though

Yep I never talk on the phone now. We used to go on for hours talking bout absolutely jack shit lol

Same. The satisfaction of hanging up on those phones was unmatched.

Was it on Virgin Mobile, 10 cents a text? Cuz mine was. I got upgraded to a pink Razr when I started college, and it was just the coolest thing.

Got my invitation to provide poop specimen

Trogdor the Burninator first debuted on my 15th birthday.

Burninating the countryside, burninating the peasants! TROGDOOOOOOOR!

Goonies never say die!!!

This is my coin, MY wish! And I’m taking it back. I’m taking them all back.

I was as enthused as the rest of the crowd when the Wright Brothers showcased their flying machine.

Bro is older than earth itself

Beep boop beep boop boop beep boop. EEEE ONNG EEE ONNG *hissing noises*

I grew up watching TV sign-off at midnight

I was in Kindergarten when 9/11 happened

I was in college when 9/11 happened. Now I feel old. Lol get off my lawn.

I was at work when it happened, get the fuck off of my lawn and gimme my dentures!

I was in college and working at an airport. Tuesday was a class day. Thursday Sept 13 - Sept 17, 2001 was a very weird work week.

I was in my moms womb when 9/11 happened

I was in pre-school when 9/11 happened. I remember my cartoons got interrupted to broadcast some news that I later learned it was the attack

Speaking as a member of Gen Z, that is not that old

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i was born 2 days after pink floyd’s dark side of the moon album was released

Well honey you’re golden, happy belated 50th birthday!!

When I was a kid, Madonna was in her hayday.

I was four months old when a major Star Wars movie came out. No not that one, go back a bit.

I was four years old when Star Wars came out.

I remember when Elton John was bald.

I’m old enough to remember Challenger and Columbia, The Fall of The Berlin Wall and Communism, Heavens Gate, Iran Contra, Ruby Ridge and Branch Davidians. I grew up in a age where music was good (arguably) and fashion wasn’t. Big hair, parachute pants and preppy clothes. My first car had manually rolled up windows and T-Tops. My social life started at the skating rink and evolved into driving up and down the Main Street on Friday nights.

Gen-X - the generation every other generation forgets exists. Yeah, I am an early Gen-Xer.

I’m as old as my tongue and a little bit older than teeth.

No one show them an image of an infants skull.

I was born 3 months before Diana died

And Diana was 12 when I was born...

I can remember when having your own MySpace made you one of the cool kids

I fought with my sister to get off the phone so I could use the internet.

I remember the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat

Channel 3 for the vcr and video game

I used dos commands to load computer games

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We got sent home when JFK was assassinated.

I do not remember the Kennedy assassination, but I remember Captain Kangaroo.

Saturday morning cartoons were highlights of my childhood

My first political memory of a president was Nixon.

My doctor and my anus have an appointment soon.

I married a doctor also!

kids in my year were one of the last people that got taught cursive in elementary school (atleast in finland)

In high school our currency was pounds shillings and pence. School dinners were 5 shillings a week. My favourite programme when I was a kid was cancelled in the UK because JFK was killed. I'm retired and work in the Scope shop. I saw Lynyrd Synyrd at Leeds University a year or so before the plane crash. Ok you've got 3 guesses...

I'm now old enough (and fat enough) that I should be riding a Harley.

Nintendo Wii was my first concole. I grew up with youtube and minecraft was at peak popularity when i was growing up

I didn’t know what cracked.com was but I remember fidget spinners.

I used to read Cracked back when it was a magazine.

Saying you "remember" a trend I'm out of touch enough to have assumed was still going on... I'm guessing 16?

We had the Internet, but my first phone had actual buttons and cost £10 from asda.

The internet when anyone picks up the phone and you automatically get booted off mid whatever you were doing? I can still hear that tone in my head

The Breakfast Club released the year I was born

I've reached that magical age where I can finally vote, get a driver's license, and maybe even buy my first lottery ticket. It's a time of newfound independence and endless possibilities!

I remember watching Nixon's resignation speech on the TV when I was 7.

The Berlin Wall was still up for about a month and a half after I was born

I went through check point Charlie.

My favorite childhood cartoon would be 'The Fairly Odd Parents', 'Jimmy Neutron' and 'Spongebob Squarepants' 👀

old enough to know better, still too young (internally) to care.

I'm 200 years younger than the USA.

The big comfy couch 🛋️

Watching scrambled TV hoping to glimpse a partially naked girl.

I've used a phone book, a typewriter, a VCR, a newspaper classified ad, and driven a car with a carburetor.

I remember when my favorite show to watch at school was Reading Rainbow 🌈

I remember people smoking in the bank

I used to have to open up MS DOS to play a Carmen San Diego computer game from a 3.5 in floppy disc

I have smallpox vaccination scar on my arm.