People argued about Startrek and posted fanfiction back in the days of ARPANET, literally the earliest incarnation of the modern internet predating Bulletin Boards and relatively affordable Microcomputers.
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IRL here in Brazil, I've never seen anyone talk about star trek (or even star wars), like... ever. Online, it took me a while to get used to how much people talk about it.
Does Brazil talk about a different space show/film?
Can't really think of any
What the hell is a foot long diameter?
A screen with the diameter the size of a foot.
A foot is an archaic measurement of length only used in 5% of the world.
Lol the wording of "a [length] long diameter" is not something I've heard before. Sounds clunky
A foot as in 12 inches. An inch is 2.54cm.
What's that in bananas?
Edit: sorry, I forgot I was on Lemmy. What's that in beans?
The only part that makes sense. I am not sure any tv was round and also who says "foot long diameter"?
Early CRTs were round, like in the Manchester Baby computer. They got squarer as they started being used for TV, more so as the scanning technology improved. You'll see early TVs from the 50s or so looking very squircular.
Yeah some CRTs used to be round but consumer ones afaik weren't round at the time anyone could afford a 12 in display
Quick, what's the radius of my TV?