My Retro TVs (myretrotvs.com)

This is great. Commercials brought back memories.

I love this

Tough to use on mobile.

If anyone is interested in seeing the real thing, there's an 'old TVs' museum in Toronto, Canada with a bunch:

* https://mztv.com

* Virtual: https://mztv.com/tour/

I'm prone to nostalgia and love projects like this. It's a very unique feeling that's hard to describe. I wonder why we feel these things for the past we've experienced.

very cool but a bit awkward to use on mobile

Oooh, this is like a rebirth of YouTube Time Machine, which went defunct awhile back. Ads end up being my favorite... they're such a weird bit of the zeitgeist: prices, style, attention seeking techniques... so interesting.

Some years ago I got hit by the retro TV bug and made one for my dad's 50th birthday [0].

It's fairly simple to put a Pi inside a tv and hook it up, but it does feel almost like the real thing

[0]: https://blog.davidv.dev/posts/revamping-an-old-tv-as-a-gift/

I just realized that we went from Knob turning -> Channel Flipping -> Infinite Scroll.

It just that with a limited set of channels, we just watch whatever was most interesting.

With Infinite scrolling you're always hoping for something better that might come.

more addicting than cookie clicker. good god

someone give me the strength to CTRL+F4

I just realized I was listening to news of the 911 attacks in the background for at least 20 minutes. Then heard the sound of static as it changed to a different stream. Super cool, I love this.

There goes my afternoon

They forgot the twang of a degauss coil when powering on those 90s and 00s flatscreens.

Such a cool project! took me back to early 2000 days of watching tv

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