• zephorah@lemm.ee
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        2 months ago

        The last time I had cable was the year of 9/11. And that was only because I plugged in a stray cable on a whim and found that my upstairs apartment tapped into the the cable from the downstairs apartment.

        Honestly, with internet, I never saw the point. And internet only cost $10-25/mo back then. Ofc, by about 2012 or so they became wise to that being the trend and started jacking the internet bill rates. And now internet costs the same as cable used to cost, or more, depending.

        But I don’t think anyone ever did a GenX is Killing Cable TV headline.

        • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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          2 months ago

          And internet only cost $10-25/mo back then.

          True, but minimum wage was like $5 an hour, and broadband connections were like 1.5 Mbps. My current broadband connection is almost a gigabit.

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      2 months ago

      They really need to pare down the number of channels at this point since they’ve all been bought up by a few companies and all show the exact same shit just at different time slots.