Don’t forget the mandatory 5 minutes fiddling with the thing before the one kid with half a brain figures out how to switch inputs.
This still happens nearly every week in Sunday school.
Every once in awhile we would get a laserdisc! Felt like a rich kid even though it was public school when that shit came out.
Oh, wait, we gotta rewind it…
Fuck yeah!
If it was educational and bad = take notes from the first 5-10 minutes and sleep for the rest
If it was educational and good = BILL BILL BILL BILL BILL BILL
If it was a movie = sleep
If it was a movie = sleep
Depends. My middle school had classrooms with accordion dividers which could open up and turn three classrooms into one big one and once, they brought in three of those TVs and had them synced up to show us Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure.
You should have seen an acquaintance i knew whose class watched the old Romeo and Julliet movie with a topless scene. lets just say the rewind and pause functions were used.
Remember how staticy CRTs were? Or the loud hum as it booted up?
Or even the picture growing and warming up or shrinking down to the middle when you turned it off.
Also putting a magnet up against the glass!
Don’t forget the super satisfying degauss button
Or the way the screen smelled and tasted like static
Dust and ozone flavoured tongue shocks … childhood.
Vthrum
I used to play with a metal bodied pen at my desk, and you could totally shock yourself by touching it to your chin while aimed at the CRT.
It was either Bill Nye or Schoolhouse Rock playing.
I had a high school English teacher who really really sucked, except when she didn’t feel like teaching and would show us TOS Star Trek episodes.
I always loved a good Eye Witness day. The opening still kicks ass.
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Brilliant. Drowning in nostalgia.
Was such a great idea. Put the heavy television in a high place and make the much-lighter base roll around. Wcgw?
So I ca show y’all 2001 Space Odyssey or Peppa Pig, yo choice.
School District gettin real fukken picky bout this shit.
You just gave me flashbacks to watching the film “Threads” on one of these setups in school. Fun times.
Teacher: “I am going to traumatise the little fucks today”
i think I once saw one of those non flat cathod ray tubes TVs in my grandma’s house when I was a child.
Reddit may have a point in requiring users to be at least 13 to join…
I’m 19… today’s 13yos where born in 2010.
Also, this isn’t Reddit.
“The Story of English” groan
Funny, I never watched that in school, but I did watch it on YouTube a few years ago and I thought it was really interesting.
But then I’m the sort of person who looks up etymology of words I find unusual.
We watched the aftermath of the Columbine shooting on one of these. Our school was one of the middle schools that fed into Columbine, and you could pick if you wanted to go to Columbine or Chatfield. A lot of my classmates went to Columbine the year after it happened.
I was in high school when 9/11 happened (I chose Chatfield) but we had TVs in most classrooms there. So, sure enough, almost every TV in that school was turned to a news network on that day. Matt Dahl, the son of one of the pilots of Flight 93, went there as well.
The sedimentary rock song has been in my head for 25 years…
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This kids’ song was stuck in the heads of They Might Be Giants for so long that they eventually covered it.
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Your school gets the nice TVs, huh?
I remember my teacher showing us All Summer in a Day on this bitch. I’m pretty sure that movie kickstarted my lifelong crippling depression. Other than that we mostly just watched Selena 62736 times.
