Frazz by Jef Mallett for November 29, 2024

Technology marches on. Language follows only fitfully. Many people still refer to dialing their phones. (I haven’t seen a phone with an actual dial in something like four decades now.) Video crews are still said to be filming something. Ratting someone out is still colloquially called “dropping a dime on them”, referring to untraceable pay phones. And people whose flat-screen TVs are hard-wired to the Internet still say they “tune in” to “broadcasts” on “the tube”.

The t.v. is definitely the focal point of the room- unless everyone is too busy on their phones to notice what’s on the big screen

I remember when TV sets were considered furniture!

I remember that Television sets included a radio.

Do they, though? The days of everyone watching the same thing are long gone.

I can remember when an 18" TV was a normal size TV…

But it came in a box 3’ tall and 4’ wide

Vacuum tubes & Test Patterns anyone?

Had the largest glass screen TV Sony ever made and needed a car jack to get it into and out of the cabinet.

Follow Edward Abbey’s sage advice. “Shoot your TeeVee”

This can’t be right. We’re seeing a child learning something. You know, as opposed to making wry comments on arcane stuff no child has ever known at age eight.

I cannot believe it! More like this one, please.

Several years ago someone gave us a big screen TV. The kids used it as a Playstation and computer monitor. They took it with them when they moved out on their own, and we don’t miss it.

Our first TV was in a cabinet and had doors that could be closed to hide that big ugly grey glass “eye”.

You did not worry about someone breaking in and stealing your TV

Wish the sound was better on flat screens, without buying a sound bar.

Now we’re considered furniture.

All of these people knocking big TVs while they’re fixed on their small screens reading GoComics. /s

When a power surge took out our 25" tv we replaced it with our first HD tv, a 35" crt set. Very heavy and deep. Was very happy when flat screens came along.

I have a 75 inch, can see the nose hairs in the football players.

The more things change . . .

Unfortunately.