I seem to remember a poster from the Sixties: “Kill your TV’’.
Philo Farnsworth, who invented the television, once told his son, Kent;
“There’s nothing on it worthwhile, and we’re not going to watch it in this household, and I don’t want it in your intellectual diet.”
I should point out that we own a television. We watch films, documentaries, and instructional vids on DVD.
I quit watching TV over 10 years ago.
FrogDad watched less and less until a year ago, when he realized he hadn’t turned it on in over 3 months, finally had the satellite disconnected.
We have been geocaching, reading, watching old series on DVD (mostly Sci-Fi), and older movies while doing jigsaw puzzles together.
We don’t miss TV.
I had a sticker like that, in 2000.
Finally followed the advice.
That was during the age of transistors, right after diodes, triodes, tetrodes, and pentodes were all the rage with the B+ voltages and filament voltages.
There was a dinosaur poster, and drinking glasses in laundry detergent thing as well.
Childhood was somewhat disturbing. Stack a cold war on top of that image...
/johnny
I must confess that every time I go to the green box drop and there is a TV that someone has left outside the dumpster, the .410 skunk gun comes out and I revert to being the Dexter of TV serial killers! I love killin’ TVs.