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Here you go, Class

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Don't forget the mandatory 5 minutes fiddling with the thing before the one kid with half a brain figures out how to switch inputs.
- This still happens nearly every week in Sunday school.
- Every once in awhile we would get a laserdisc! Felt like a rich kid even though it was public school when that shit came out.
- Oh, wait, we gotta rewind it...

I know we're shit posting but if I could get real for a moment, this is how I learned about 9/11.
TV rolls in. Whole class goes "Yay". Teacher says, "Be quiet and watch". Whole class goes, "Oh no, he's grumpy". Whole class goes, "Wait... This is live TV". A whole world changes.
Otherwise though, TV good.
- This is how I found out too. I remember 9th grade had just begun and it was the first class of the morning. Replays of the planes hitting the towers were playing over and over when we walked into the classroom. I was living in Alaska at the time so it felt like a world away. It was all very surreal.
  
  We learnt about it on the news, but actually am a world away.
  Seemed like a movie villain without being able to fully grasp what's happening. Around that time terrorist events were happening around the world too.
  
  I arrived in Hong Kong from the US on 9/11 (so 9/10 in the US). Turned on BBC in the evening... and didn't sleep for a few nights. Extremely weird way to start a year teaching in China.
- Damn, I caught the vibe through your story :’(
- Exactly how it was for us too.
  
  And then someone in my group said, "Oh my fucking god, Tom Clancy called it."
- Yeah I watched the towers fall on one of these CRTs strapped to a cart.
- On 09/11, my middle school hid the news from the students. I heard information about what was going on through gossip from other students. It was incredibly surreal because students were getting pulled out of class left and right by their parents. Walking by the teachers lounge, I peaked in to see the teachers staring at the TV and crying, but the principal was steadfast about not telling the students.
  I honestly had no idea what was really going on and it wasn’t until I got home from school by the bus where I was surprised to see my Dad already home from work just glued to the TV. That’s when I finally learned about what really happened and saw the footage for the first time…at 4pm in the afternoon…
  
  My elementary school didn't hide the Challenger shuttle disaster with us, but for some reason they wouldn't let us watch it happen live. Which, I guess, saved us from being as traumatized as we could have been. I remember the teacher coming into the lunch room and telling us and the big gasp. That mission was a big deal to kids because a school teacher would be on board, the first civilian astronaut.
  
  I was also in middle school, one of the history teachers for my grade put it on the TV before the principal decided to try to not let the middle and elementary schoolers (it was a K-12 school) watch, so we all kind of knew what was going on, and in hindsight my teachers seem to have disagreed with the choice to keep us out of the loop. After lunch several of us were in the classroom before the teacher so we turned on her radio and listened to the news, that's how I first learned about the second plane.

Fuck yeah!
If it was educational and bad = take notes from the first 5-10 minutes and sleep for the rest
If it was educational and good = BILL BILL BILL BILL BILL BILL
If it was a movie = sleep
- If it was a movie = sleep
  Depends. My middle school had classrooms with accordion dividers which could open up and turn three classrooms into one big one and once, they brought in three of those TVs and had them synced up to show us Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure.
- You should have seen an acquaintance i knew whose class watched the old Romeo and Julliet movie with a topless scene. lets just say the rewind and pause functions were used.

Remember how staticy CRTs were? Or the loud hum as it booted up?
Or even the picture growing and warming up or shrinking down to the middle when you turned it off.
Also putting a magnet up against the glass!
- Don't forget the super satisfying degauss button
  
  Or the way the screen smelled and tasted like static
  
  Vthrum
- I used to play with a metal bodied pen at my desk, and you could totally shock yourself by touching it to your chin while aimed at the CRT.

It was either Bill Nye or Schoolhouse Rock playing.
- I had a high school English teacher who really really sucked, except when she didn't feel like teaching and would show us TOS Star Trek episodes.
- I always loved a good Eye Witness day. The opening still kicks ass.
  
  Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
  The opening still kicks ass.
  Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
  I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.
  
  Oh man I forgot about them! One of these days I'm going to buy a dvd go through them all.

Brilliant. Drowning in nostalgia.

Was such a great idea. Put the heavy television in a high place and make the much-lighter base roll around. Wcgw?

You just gave me flashbacks to watching the film “Threads” on one of these setups in school. Fun times.
- Teacher: "I am going to traumatise the little fucks today"

Your school gets the nice TVs, huh?

i think I once saw one of those non flat cathod ray tubes TVs in my grandma's house when I was a child.
- Reddit may have a point in requiring users to be at least 13 to join...
  
  I'm 19... today's 13yos where born in 2010.
  
  Also, this isn't Reddit.

"The Story of English" groan
- Funny, I never watched that in school, but I did watch it on YouTube a few years ago and I thought it was really interesting.
  But then I'm the sort of person who looks up etymology of words I find unusual.

We watched the aftermath of the Columbine shooting on one of these. Our school was one of the middle schools that fed into Columbine, and you could pick if you wanted to go to Columbine or Chatfield. A lot of my classmates went to Columbine the year after it happened.
I was in high school when 9/11 happened (I chose Chatfield) but we had TVs in most classrooms there. So, sure enough, almost every TV in that school was turned to a news network on that day. Matt Dahl, the son of one of the pilots of Flight 93, went there as well.

The sedimentary rock song has been in my head for 25 years...
Rock Odyssey
- This kids' song was stuck in the heads of They Might Be Giants for so long that they eventually covered it.
  
  Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
  This kids' song
  Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
  I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.
- Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
  Rock Odyssey
  Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
  I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

Are we watching the lion king?

I can't quite make it out through the cataracts. What tf is it? Speak up! Grabs ear trumpet

I remember my teacher showing us All Summer in a Day on this removed. I'm pretty sure that movie kickstarted my lifelong crippling depression. Other than that we mostly just watched Selena 62736 times.

Before videotapes, we used to watch film strips with guided audio tapes that would beep to advance to the next image. Some would auto advance.

Where's the laserdisk player?

@class@lemmy.world

Oh shit i hope we’re watching either a goofy movie or one of the Smithsonian Discover videos!

You guys played films at school? Guess what we had.
One day my school played us a live feed of Al Jazeera Children's Channel (now known as JeemTV), I'm not even joking. I think they were airing an episode of a cartoon rendition of 1001 Nights at the time. It was pretty cool nonetheless.

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