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    653 points thunderbong | 12 comments | 28 Jul 23 12:46 UTC | HN request time: 0.657s | source | bottom
    1. gdubs ◴[28 Jul 23 20:14 UTC] No.36912672[source]▶
    Omg, this is amazing. I just got completely engrossed in a John Stewart interview of Conan from like, '94.

    One thing I realized about TikTok is how much it taps into the channel-flipping mechanism. It's basically what I would do as a kid rotating the dial, giving each beat about a second or two before flipping to the next.

    The biggest difference is that today, it never comes back around the dial - the dial is practically infinite.

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    2. rudyfink ◴[28 Jul 23 20:55 UTC] No.36913190[source]▶
    >The biggest difference is that today, it never comes back around the dial - the dial is practically infinite.

    And the TV analyzes your dial-flipping to determine what channel to change you to / generates a channel you are more likely to stay on.

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    3. mnd999 ◴[28 Jul 23 21:04 UTC] No.36913301[source]▶
    Heh, heh, this sux change it.
    4. jvm___ ◴[28 Jul 23 21:21 UTC] No.36913508[source]▶
    Is hackernews on of the last sites where the TV doesn't analyze your preferences and generates a new front-page based on what it thinks will engage you the most?
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    5. joahua ◴[28 Jul 23 21:28 UTC] No.36913611[source]▶
    To be fair TV ratings did this, just on a very slow inference cycle!
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    6. dvngnt_ ◴[28 Jul 23 22:01 UTC] No.36913947[source]▶
    i've actually noticed that tiktok is good sending me back to creators if there's an update to something that went viral.

    or there are times where i'll get a clip from one angle then an hour later i get another video from a different perspective

    7. Topgamer7 ◴[28 Jul 23 22:25 UTC] No.36914194[source]▶
    I laugh-cringed at the "Operation Pedophile Not" skit from SNL in 1994.
    8. xattt ◴[29 Jul 23 00:51 UTC] No.36915565{3}[source]▶
    Hacker News is interactive Teletext.
    9. not2b ◴[29 Jul 23 02:09 UTC] No.36916102{3}[source]▶
    No, Mastodon is the same. You get what you follow, people or hashtags, plus things the people you follow boost.
    10. Sakos ◴[29 Jul 23 10:54 UTC] No.36918931[source]▶
    I have an archive of Jon Stewart as host of The Daily Show from 1999 to 2015. It's over 3000 episodes and it's such a trip putting that on shuffle and seeing what the topic was on any particular day.
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    11. Sakos ◴[29 Jul 23 10:55 UTC] No.36918940{3}[source]▶
    TV ratings did this as an aggregate of estimated viewer preferences. Doing that immediately on an individual level is wholly different.
    12. fzzzy ◴[29 Jul 23 11:32 UTC] No.36919187[source]▶
    I'd love a Craig Kilborne archive...