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I'm only 35 and I remember this. It was quite common before YouTube.


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I distinctly remember being 17 years old and being fascinated watching these videos on YouTube. It was really one of the first things to get me interested in logging into YouTube actively as opposed to simply being linked to the site from elsewhere. Nice to see that the actors didn't come out of it for the worse :)

Huh. Now wish young me had seen that video.


This is nothing new - I have seen similar things since I was about 8.

I'm old enough to remember the first time this was posted to HN...

I did this all the time when I was 13, 14 years old.

Oh, this takes me back. One of the first wonderfully weird things I discovered on Youtube almost 15 years ago. The VHS quality, the ubiquitous Rocky or Top Gun soundtrack, oh my...

I wasn't old enough to be on those sites, but I do remember being glued to the TV pretty much the whole morning.

Is that still a thing? I remember this was a thing when I was a kid in the 90ies, but I haven't experienced this in a long time.

It was such a powerful generational phenomenon that kids have heard of it even if they have no direct experience: https://youtu.be/8ucCxtgN6sc?t=188

No problem. I'm in my 50's. I didn't see my first porno until I was 19 at a drive-in. I didn't see my first super-gore picture until I was in my 30's. It seems very weird to me that kids see all this at a very young age. Now Hentai is another weird thing to me. I do know humans are adaptable, but don't know in what way kids have adapted to it. My poor father, he heard Jimmy Fallon mention 2 girls 1 cup so he looked it up. He was visibly shaken when he told me about it. I have managed to avoid that one.

This happened on my 3rd birthday. Can't say I remember exactly what I was doing at the time but I've heard my parents talk about seeing it on TV.

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Just for you: in 1992, in Boise, Idaho, I was asked (by a 16 year old boy, a local) whether I knew what a TV remote control is, and he then proceeded to explain to me as well the miracle of video recording. I was 14 at the time.

I am western European.

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I never actually did it, but I was around the same age when I read about this on TOTSE (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOTSE) back in 2000-2001.

Did it watching cartoons when I was younger...

I had a similar experience at around the same age. In my case it was Douglas Adam's 1990 documentary for the BBC called Hyperland. All about the Internet and the web before I'd even heard of such things. I remember thinking at the time that the stuff in the documentary would never happen in my lifetime.

Luckily it's on Youtube so I can reminisce. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOsPKjbMvxY


Flipped through channels, saw a Wallflowers music video, stopped.

Same thing happened 18 years ago. Nice to relive that.


I never saw any "videos" as a young child. Such things didn't exist during the Jurassic.

Me too, but I'm old enough to remember TV interstitials looking like that.
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