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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Ahhhhhh, it's VHS Cinderella!

All I need now is one of those boxy TVs with the bulgey front and a fireplace (and also to sit half a cm away from the screen) and I'll be a certified 90s kid!

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Hahaha. Those boxy tvs are called CRT (cathode ray tubes) televisions.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Ah yep that's the term. I'm not quite young enough to not remember them at all, we didn't have enough money for a flat screen so I think we kept ours until 2014 or 15. Those guys were strong as, I knocked it off the stand once running inside and it still worked perfectly afterwards