Ravenprose said:

We had 3.5 TV channels growing up. The .5 channel would some in snowy or not at all; on random days when the stars aligned just right, it would come in clear ... about 3 days a year, lol.

Yeah, the government channel and a commercial channel.  It was good, though. We were so bored that we'd take the TV apart and put it back together (amazed we didn't electrocute ourselves).  I told my brother, one day we'll be able to pause and rewind live TV. He said it was impossible. I explained we would be able to buffer the signal on some form of cassette (this was about 1983).

I was disciplined in year 2 because the teacher said, "Did you children watch Pam Ayers (poet) on the government channel last night. I said yes, in fact, we taped it. She challenged me, and I said, My parents taped it.  I was sent to the principal's office because it was fanciful that anyone at the time could own a video recorder, and I was lying. (I put all this together years later).

My Mum had taped the audio on a reel-to-reel recorder so we could listen to it when we wanted.

Fucking small brains.