I don’t think people who are born anytime in the era of cable television will ever understand what it meant to have only three channels. I’m sure if you tried to get them to imagine what that life was like, it would be hard to convince them that it wasn’t the slightest bit boring. On the contrary, it wasn’t boring at all.
We knew how to live within what we had. And we looked forward to Sunday nights. We waited to watch things we liked. And then we filled the rest of our time with the stuff of life…