@calvin @jk

@thornyonmain i cant imagine how it isnt

@thefishcrow so did i! so did everyone?????

@jk any poor unfortunate mothercluckers to have been alive in western society at that time, ye

@Zero_Democracy aye, but this is y2k in function as well as form!

@jk Cursed knobs.

@jk Wait, no, here's one better: the antenna is so the tuning knob.

@pan yep!!! i think my mum has had about 3 of them over the years??

@bhtooefr i remember these really clearly but the ones i saw always had opaque regular plastic (usually grey or black or something?) so maybe this was a later model hastily altered to match the design fashion??

@bhtooefr @jk Dammit I had this exact TV. I had one of these. I remember it with indescribable amounts of clarity.

@bhtooefr @jk It was monochrome.

@bhtooefr @jk

on that day I remember listening to BBC World Service on a Sony SW100 shortwave radio (also from late 90s, still have it somewhere but it needs new ribbon cable inside), as my (then very new) DOCSIS broadband Internet suddenly started acting up.

My enduring memory of this is the BBC reporter interviewing someone from US Embassy(?) and the first thing mentioned was the "potential dollar cost" of the incident (even before suspected casuality figures etc)

@KittyUnpretty @jk you was so extra. I had a yellow gold one hahahaha

@KittyUnpretty @jk *switches on*
"greetings, Ｋ ｉ ｔ ｔ ｙ
the sound orb will now dispense pleasant sounds"

@lulucybrelu a more hopeful vision of the future, where all technology would be round and all our furniture would be inflatable

@envgen i think you can actually still get these in the argos catalogue

@jk

Or is it one metal hotdog that's really long?

I just don't know.

@RobF @jk it’s to make it look friendly

@caraellison @RobF *extremely inquisitive seagull voice*

sosig ???