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[_] Anon 3274105 The flash is from 2009 and I'm not uploading it because it's super good but because it made me remember those TV "shows" that aired before Internet kicked into mainstream around 2011. You could SMS in to have your message scroll down at the bottom of the screen and the show often hosted some kind of "contest" involving guessing and/or phoning in. It was basically aired during the daytime to earn easy money, the host or hostess would blather on about some nonsense to get you to keep watching, texting and phoning in with guesses. Anyone else remember them? Was probably most of them before 2005. I remember thinking at the time that such garbage would be around forever but here we are and it's gone. Times really are a-changing.
>> [_] Anon 3274111 And now we have clickbait and datamining instead.
>> [_] Anon 3274138 >># Internet mainstream 2011? Bro, do you even eternal september? Sure is summer around here. Also those "shows" still play in todays television and are as shitty as teletext has always been.
>> [_] Anon 3274179 >># >Eternal September >Usenet slang for a period beginning in September 1993 dude get out of here, im not talking about internet being available to the mainstream, im talking about the internet becoming mainstream. before 2011 pepole got online to check their mails and such but it was not until 2011 i noticed that everybody and their grandmother knew what memes were and used internet as part of their daily life instead of as a tool to check your mail and news. naturally it didn't happen overnight but suddenly it was obvious that everybody were online.
>> [_] Anon 3274205 >># >mainstream around 2011 What stone-age African nation you in? >># >eternal september The year Usenet died.
>> [_] Anon 3274216 >># >># He means mainstream as it is today. Like every single person uses the internet recreationally all day now. It didn't used to be like that.