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Watch TV from the 90s and earlier

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653 points thunderbong | 2 comments | 28 Jul 23 12:46 UTC | HN request time: 0.723s | source
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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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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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1. 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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2. Sakos ◴[29 Jul 23 10:55 UTC] No.36918940[source]▶
TV ratings did this as an aggregate of estimated viewer preferences. Doing that immediately on an individual level is wholly different.