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[_] Anonymous 08/20/17(Sun)01:29:38 No.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.
>> [_] Anonymous 08/20/17(Sun)02:00:43 No.3274111
And now we have clickbait and datamining instead.
>> [_] Anonymous 08/20/17(Sun)05:31:30 No.3274138
>>3274105
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.
>> [_] Anonymous 08/20/17(Sun)11:43:58 No.3274179
>>3274138
>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.
>> [_] Anonymous 08/20/17(Sun)13:30:51 No.3274205
>>3274105
>mainstream around 2011
What stone-age African nation you in?
>>3274138
>eternal september
The year Usenet died.
>> [_] Anonymous 08/20/17(Sun)14:07:07 No.3274216
>>3274205
>>3274138
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.
