In advance of their widely heralded 2009 demise, analog TVs are no longer being sold at big-box retailer Best Buy, which comes as a shock to...well, no one. And so a product we all grew up with takes its place in the graveyard.
Five things we'll miss about our good ol' electronic babysitters:
- Adjusting rabbit ears to improve reception (bonus if you added aluminum foil)
- The Vertical Hold dial, great for infuriating your siblings during their shows
- A broken channel knob, replaced by vise-grips
- How the image instantly shrunk into an intense white dot when you turned the TV off, like a star collapsing in on itself
- Your father insisting you were sitting too close. If he could only see you at this moment, reading this on your laptop
And here it is folks, an image you've not seen in years (and we can just about guarantee that after reading this entry you'll never see it again):
To childhood!
via reuters
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