21 Things You Did To Entertain Yourself At Home In The 90’s
It's been 20 years already!
Published For ASTRO MALAYSIA - 23 Dec 2016, 01:16 AM
Cover image via parasitblog/Danielle Johnson1. Coming home from school to watch Tamil movies for 3 hours straight
2. Then tuning in to your favourite cartoons at 5.30pm
3. Movie night at home consisted of Hollywood blockbusters, Bollywood awesomeness, and Kung Fu
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Bonus points if you can name this movie 😉
4. Staying up late to watch the biggest EPL match once a week on delayed telecasts
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Or catching the entire match on the radio through commentary alone!
5. You know you're staying up too late when regular tv programming ended and all you see is this
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Do kids these days know what TV static even is?!
6. Watching the colour bar countdown when you wake up earlier than the cartoons on Saturday morning
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7. You had to plan your day around your favourite TV shows
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Yeah, now we just download on OD and watch what we want, when we want ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
8. Going out meant missing an episode and not knowing when you'd ever get to watch it :'(
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But now even if we miss something live, we can catch repeats or watch it on catch-up.
9. Frantically writing down a cooking recipe directly from the TV screen so you can make it later
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Of course now we can just pause-play-record-rewind with PVR 😛
10. Adjusting the TV antenna was an art form
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11. Video rental stores… nuff said!
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12. You had to buy VHS tapes to watch your favourite movies
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13. Remember the hassle of having to do this at the end of every movie?
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14. Or your parents would record shows and movies using the VCR…
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Who woulda thought we would be able to download shows and movies directly to our TV decoders and watch them On Demand twenty years later :O
15. And you watched them over and over until they looked like this…
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16. Then there was laser disc
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17. That potong stim moment when you're watching a VCD and have to take out Part 1 to put in Part 2
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Sometimes followed by Part 2 not working at all! Lol good times.
18. Making way for the mighty DVD
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19. You were super cool if you had a collection like this
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20. When someone you knew got Astro for the first time, everyone went to watch TV together
And it's still bringing people together 20 years later <3
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21. It felt like you suddenly had a bazillion channels to choose from
TV at home just wasn't the same after that!
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Can you believe the 90's happened twenty years ago?
Time sure flies when you're having fun, and we sure did #growingupinmalaysia 🙂
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