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In the 1980s we downloaded games from the radio

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286 points spzb | 1 comments | 28 Mar 25 22:14 UTC | HN request time: 0.198s | source
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Joeboy ◴[31 Mar 25 11:02 UTC] No.43533524[source]▶
From my subjective experience, having "been there at the time", I think this was sufficiently obscure that "not really a thing" is not an unreasonable take. It's a bit like "Yes, in the 2020s we got NFTs tattooed on our bodies".

Edit: Although having just googled it it seems like NFT tattoos might be more of a thing than I was aware, so what do I know.

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1. flohofwoe ◴[31 Mar 25 11:07 UTC] No.43533565[source]▶
It was 'big in East Germany' though (see my comment about Prof Dr Horst Voelz). A translated section from that link:

"The response to the show was unexpectedly overwhelming. Over the course of the approximately 60 episodes, the station received a total of approximately 50,000 letters from listeners. This was unprecedented in the history of broadcasting."

...and of course as a teenager I was eagerly awaiting each show and recorded the programs that were broadcasted at the end :)