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They were behemoths. (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by BonesOfTheMoon to c/[email protected]

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[–] Anticorp 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

These things were still in people's houses into the 90's

[–] AnUnusualRelic 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Probably because there was no practical way of getting rid of them.

[–] Anticorp 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That, plus TVs used to be expensive, and a working TV wasn't something most people would just get rid of.

[–] bruhduh 3 points 7 months ago

More than that, working electronics, they all were EXPENSIVE just until 2005-2010 when cheap Chinese tech flooded market and prices of domestic daily usage tech plummeted