Retro TV channels!

[Lucas88]

@WanderingProtagonist just shared a retro TV website with me. You can watch many TV channels as though they were live from every year of the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s and 2000s. How awesome is that!

Here are channels from the 80s, 90s and 2000s:

https://www.my80stv.com/

https://www.my90stv.com/

https://www.my00stv.com/


I first flicked through channels from 1991. I watched some commercials, some movie trailers, and a music video of the Scorpions. Then I switched over to 1999 and caught a talk show, an episode of Hey Arnold, a women's international soccer match between USA and Brazil, and a paranormal series called Roswell. The late 90s definitely had a very different vibe to the early 90s. Then I opened the 80s TV website and watched some channels from 1988. I immediately came across the music video for Eric Carmen's "Make Me Lose Control" and just marked out to it like crazy. I also watched some commercials, a few moments of a basketball game, news channels, and various other things.

The nostalgia is eating me up right now!

TV was so much better in the 80s and 90s. The first thing that caught my attention was that the visuals are grainy and the sound quality is much lower than what we are accustomed to today but in my opinion those things add to the aesthetic and create a more authentic vibe. Then I saw that the content back then was much more vibrant and upbeat and brimming with originality. TV from those decades is fun to watch.

I observe the people from the 80s and 90s and they actually look good. The women look feminine and wholesome, dress well, have nice hairstyles and exude a special allure. They have a classy and uxorial quality that makes me feel genuinely attracted to them and couldn't be any further from the tatted-up, makeup-plastered, fake-lipped, diseased-looking trashbag skanks that you commonly see today. I love women from that period. At the same time, the men look virile, well-constituted and handsome. They're not ugly sewer-mutant dweebs poisoned by Bisphenol A and countless other toxins and xenoestrogens like at least half of Gen Z. Moreover, there are no people of either sex with pink or purple hair and unsightly piercings and certainly no weirdos talking about made-up genders. Just normal people with a decent level of natural beauty and charm and a respectable presentation. I love it!

I also notice how people in the 80s and 90s even spoke much better. They enunciate their words more clearly and use a broader vocabulary. And they actually have manners and a decent amount of savoir faire.

I guess that is what it was like to live in a normal world. I was born in the late 80s but was too young to remember anything. But I vividly remember the late 90s and early 2000s and loved that time.

[WanderingProtagonist]

@WanderingProtagonist just shared a retro TV website with me. You can watch many TV channels as though they were live from every year of the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s and 2000s. How awesome is that!

Here are channels from the 80s, 90s and 2000s:

https://www.my80stv.com/

https://www.my90stv.com/

https://www.my00stv.com/


I first flicked through channels from 1991. I watched some commercials, some movie trailers, and a music video of the Scorpions. Then I switched over to 1999 and caught a talk show, an episode of Hey Arnold, a women's international soccer match between USA and Brazil, and a paranormal series called Roswell. The late 90s definitely had a very different vibe to the early 80s. Then I opened the 80s TV website and watched some channels from 1988. I immediately came across the music video for Eric Carmen's "Make Me Lose Control" and just marked out to it like crazy. I also watched some commercials, a few moments of a basketball game, news channels, and various other things.

The nostalgia is eating me up right now!

TV was so much better in the 80s and 90s. The first thing that caught my attention was that the visuals are grainy and the sound quality is much lower than what we are accustomed to today but in my opinion those things add to the aesthetic and create a more authentic vibe. Then I saw that the content back then was much more vibrant and upbeat and brimming with originality. TV from those decades is fun to watch.

I observe the people from the 80s and 90s and they actually look good. The women look feminine and wholesome, dress well, have nice hairstyles and exude a special allure. They have a classy and uxorial quality that makes me feel genuinely attracted to them and couldn't be any further from the tatted-up, makeup-plastered, fake-lipped, diseased-looking trashbag skanks that you commonly see today. I love women from that period. At the same time, the men look virile, well-constituted and handsome. They're not ugly sewer-mutant dweebs poisoned by Bisphenol A and countless other toxins and xenoestrogens like at least half of Gen Z. Moreover, there are no people of either sex with pink or purple hair and unsightly piercings and certainly no weirdos talking about made-up genders. Just normal people with a decent level of natural beauty and charm and a respectable presentation. I love it!

I also notice how people in the 80s and 90s even spoke much better. They enunciate their words more clearly and use a broader vocabulary. And they actually have manners and a decent amount of savoir faire.

I guess that is what it was like to live in a normal world. I was born in the late 80s but was too young to remember anything. But I vividly remember the late 90s and early 2000s and loved that time.

And if you want the site to stay around longer, support the guy if you can who created it. I've been trying to do that because the platform is very useful. It helps take the edge off if you are truly a die-hard fan of the greater years when Western media was more concerned with making people happy...Unlike today where their main goal is to ruin everything that was once good. They don't even promote family values anymore like they use to do. I remember seeing a lot of depressing ads they try to force feed you on youtube, which is why I use Ublock. I remember when we still had television antenia and like 80% of the commercials were about death and life insurance...A bunch of old boomer commercials featuring near dead elderly people...It was depressing as hell...

Then when we had satelite for a shorter period of time they got rid of all the fun commercials from back in the 90s and early 2000s. Video games use to have commercials advertising their products, almost every video game in the early 2000s had a commercial...Now they don't even exist, not even for the big name brand triple AAA games. I believe so many people are aware of how bad things are that if you go on youtube and look at any vintage video you'll see LOTS of people begging and craving for the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s to come back...Even kids who didn't get to live through it are feeling like that now. That's how shitty this era really is compared to how good we use to have.

And the whole damn decline was intentional too....I feel that they felt we were loving life too damn much back then and so they worked extremely hard to undermine and destroy all of that. People began noticing the decline even more so with Netflix, especially after Obama and his wife took over, everyone started complaining how much worse it got. All of their shows were Far left propaganda, and that's what happened to entertainment but it was declining somewhere around 2009-2010. By 2011, the West finally died and it never recovered or got better ever since. We talked about Wrestling and how it had changed....I think wrestling tanked around 2008.

[MrMan]

Interesting site. I'd rather pick out what I want, but I wouldn't mind streaming some episodes I hadn't seen of old shows I'd watched in the past, maybe. Sliders comes to mind. There are probably some others from the '80's. The '80's had sitcoms, but the chances of seeing an episode of one I liked that I haven't seen is low, and really it's a waste of time. I do like being able to stream stuff fast.

When I tried this out, I clicked on the 1980's, and saw an English guy talking against a boring background and thought since Pixel Dude had posted this, maybe this was '80's British TV. Wasn't British TV in the 1980's three channels of documentaries about butterflies and hummingbirds, interspersed with a few historical documentaries, news programs, and an occasional episode of Dr. Who are some obnoxious comedy where men dressed like women or had blue hair, and maybe a special treat of Yes, Minister? I read they didn't get real cable TV over there until the 1990's, and before that there were three channels of BBC. I can imagine three channels produced by PBS except English. That's a way for the country to keep people from watching too much television.

They also have '70's TV dials on these web pages. Those dials continued into the 1980's for those who had old sets. But I remember around 1980 or 1980 our big wooden Magnovox with the giant dials on it gave out and we got a smaller sleeker Sony with buttons, a remote control and a new TV smell.

Also, the fuzz lasts for two long. You turned the channel and the show was right there was I recall, unless it didn't come in well, which was on a continuum. It could be a bit fuzzy. If it was bad it would flip, but if you really wanted to know what happened you could watch through the fuzz or even watch a flipping channel. During the Bush administration, they brought in digital, which was pretty much all or nothing. You either got the channel in clear or it pretty much wouldn't show up at all... often not at all.

Now we've got streaming. We get the holiday deals and pay a few bucks a month and pay for prime to ship stuff so we get those channels. Those channels get boring fast. We have an antenna somewhere. I don't know. I watch some national news online through the TV, but don't really get any local news except on the radio on the way to work (little local news around here on the radio, too) or online if I look it up.

[WanderingProtagonist]

Interesting site. I'd rather pick out what I want, but I wouldn't mind streaming some episodes I hadn't seen of old shows I'd watched in the past, maybe. Sliders comes to mind. There are probably some others from the '80's. The '80's had sitcoms, but the chances of seeing an episode of one I liked that I haven't seen is low, and really it's a waste of time. I do like being able to stream stuff fast.

When I tried this out, I clicked on the 1980's, and saw an English guy talking against a boring background and thought since Pixel Dude had posted this, maybe this was '80's British TV. Wasn't British TV in the 1980's three channels of documentaries about butterflies and hummingbirds, interspersed with a few historical documentaries, news programs, and an occasional episode of Dr. Who are some obnoxious comedy where men dressed like women or had blue hair, and maybe a special treat of Yes, Minister? I read they didn't get real cable TV over there until the 1990's, and before that there were three channels of BBC. I can imagine three channels produced by PBS except English. That's a way for the country to keep people from watching too much television.

They also have '70's TV dials on these web pages. Those dials continued into the 1980's for those who had old sets. But I remember around 1980 or 1980 our big wooden Magnovox with the giant dials on it gave out and we got a smaller sleeker Sony with buttons, a remote control and a new TV smell.

Also, the fuzz lasts for two long. You turned the channel and the show was right there was I recall, unless it didn't come in well, which was on a continuum. It could be a bit fuzzy. If it was bad it would flip, but if you really wanted to know what happened you could watch through the fuzz or even watch a flipping channel. During the Bush administration, they brought in digital, which was pretty much all or nothing. You either got the channel in clear or it pretty much wouldn't show up at all... often not at all.

Now we've got streaming. We get the holiday deals and pay a few bucks a month and pay for prime to ship stuff so we get those channels. Those channels get boring fast. We have an antenna somewhere. I don't know. I watch some national news online through the TV, but don't really get any local news except on the radio on the way to work (little local news around here on the radio, too) or online if I look it up.

Streaming may give people immediate access to everything fast, but come on...It's not the same and I don't pay for streaming services anyway...I use sites where I can stream stuff FREE. I'm not paying for Netflix, I hate Netflix and I can't stand all the wokeism they have advertised on it either. I really don't mind having things back to how it was years ago because I felt people enjoyed life more...Technology today has done nothing to make people happier. If anything it has honestly made life WORSE, and a whole lot more boring.
Sure I hated rewinding tapes back then, but I don't mind watching VHS movies if I had a VCR, and I can deal with the low resolution and gritty static effect.

Sometimes I'll even watch the previue guide scroll from back in the day, I know @Lucas88 probably remembers this I don't know if every country had this, but here in America we did. I often smell the inside of those VHS tapes and I swear lol I get some kind of hight off the scent because I have all these past memories of that one night my mother had bought so many VHS tapes, and I remember she was sitting on her bed taking the plastic wrap off all the tapes. She had almost every single popular movie you can think of. Dick Tracy, The Terminator 1-2, Splash, Batman, Superman II, Sound Of Music, just everything her bedroom was filled with VHS tapes. And I don't know how or why but we ended up losing them all, now she owns all those same movies on DVD. There had to be over 100+ VHS tapes she had back then. I use to watch the hell out of those movies. Then we had cable and I would watch HBO and Cinemax where I discovered all kinds of movies I never even heard of before. Same thing with Sundance channel...Damn the 90s and early 2000s was great...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQrTr-byWbU lol @Lucas88 How do you get the video thumbnails to show up on this site when you post links from youtube of a video? I can never get it to do that

[Lucas88]

Streaming may give people immediate access to everything fast, but come on...It's not the same and I don't pay for streaming services anyway...I use sites where I can stream stuff FREE. I'm not paying for Netflix, I hate Netflix and I can't stand all the wokeism they have advertised on it either. I really don't mind having things back to how it was years ago because I felt people enjoyed life more...Technology today has done nothing to make people happier. If anything it has honestly made life WORSE, and a whole lot more boring.
Sure I hated rewinding tapes back then, but I don't mind watching VHS movies if I had a VCR, and I can deal with the low resolution and gritty static effect.

Sometimes I'll even watch the previue guide scroll from back in the day, I know @Lucas88 probably remembers this I don't know if every country had this, but here in America we did. I often smell the inside of those VHS tapes and I swear lol I get some kind of hight off the scent because I have all these past memories of that one night my mother had bought so many VHS tapes, and I remember she was sitting on her bed taking the plastic wrap off all the tapes. She had almost every single popular movie you can think of. Dick Tracy, The Terminator 1-2, Splash, Batman, Superman II, Sound Of Music, just everything her bedroom was filled with VHS tapes. And I don't know how or why but we ended up losing them all, now she owns all those same movies on DVD. There had to be over 100+ VHS tapes she had back then. I use to watch the hell out of those movies. Then we had cable and I would watch HBO and Cinemax where I discovered all kinds of movies I never even heard of before. Same thing with Sundance channel...Damn the 90s and early 2000s was great...

I also really enjoyed scrolling through the channels late at night and sampling movies, series, music videos, sports events, etc. That was how I discovered new content. If the program seemed good, I would continue to watch it or record a repeat to VHS. Often the same movies were repeated later in the week for those who missed them. For example, if you missed a movie premier on Sky Movies 1 you would usually find multiple repeats of the same movie on Sky Movies 2 and 3. It made recording programs easy.

There was a certain beauty and charm to all of that. It made me feel like a treasure hunter going out and seeing if I could find something valuable and I discovered a helluva lot of new stuff that way. Most of the movies that I still like to this day I found by scrolling through TV channels when I was alone at night as a teenager. That includes a lot of obscure movies that I discovered purely by accident and wouldn't have ever known about them if it weren't for my TV treasure hunting episodes.

Today it is more convenient in many ways to stream movies and series through Netflix and other online platforms but the magic of 90s and early 2000s TV has been largely lost. I actually loved having to watch the movie or series at a set time and even watching through the intermittent commercials which back then were fun and sometimes hilarious. I would often make a night out of it, having all of my soft drunks and munchies prepared just before the program was about to start. It was way more fun than streaming movies and series today.

Here is an example of a hilarious commercial from 2002:



Speaking of VHS, I used to make recordings of all of the WWF pay per views which, in the UK at that time, were aired on Channel 4 or Sky Sports 1 and therefore incurred no extra cost! We also had some men's channels such as Men and Motors which featured softcore porn late at night and I used to set the programs to record and keep them on VHS tapes which I would disguise as WWF events. Lol! I'd write on the label things like "WWF Backlash" so that my momma wouldn't suspect anything. LMAO!

I used to have a whole load of VHS tapes with recorded movies, wrestling events, obscure documentaries and softcore porn but I too don't know what happened to them and they're now obsolete technology. Even if I found them I wouldn't be able to play them. If I remember correctly, I no longer own even a DVD player.

Last night, after making my OP, I began watching some TV from 2001 on the same website. It was surreal. I came across music videos from my era growing up, news reports of 911 ( ), and then I found a horror and mystery series called Night Visions which I couldn't stop watching – found using the same old TV treasure hunting method that I used to use when I was a kid!!!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_V ... TV_series)



Man, American TV reached the height of its quality in the early 2000s. Many of the movies and series were just excellent.

[Lucas88]

When I tried this out, I clicked on the 1980's, and saw an English guy talking against a boring background and thought since Pixel Dude had posted this, maybe this was '80's British TV. Wasn't British TV in the 1980's three channels of documentaries about butterflies and hummingbirds, interspersed with a few historical documentaries, news programs, and an occasional episode of Dr. Who are some obnoxious comedy where men dressed like women or had blue hair, and maybe a special treat of Yes, Minister? I read they didn't get real cable TV over there until the 1990's, and before that there were three channels of BBC. I can imagine three channels produced by PBS except English. That's a way for the country to keep people from watching too much television.

It was me who posted the links, not Pixel--Dude. The programs on the TV channels are mostly from the US but there is also the occasional British program thrown in here and there.

I don't remember what British TV was like in the 80s because that was before my time but in the 90s there were four free-to-air public broadcast channels which included BBC1, BBC2, ITV and Channel 4. Channel 4 tended to air programming related to niche interests and often somewhat edgier content. Then in 1997 they added a fifth channel, Channel 5, which always aired good movies, series, documentaries, etc.

However, in the late 90s Sky TV (the UK's foremost satellite broadcasting company) was offering an increasingly broader range of content and by the early 2000s those who were willing to pay the modest subscription fee now had access to hundreds of channels with packages specializing in movies, sports events, music, etc. depending on one's personal proclivities.

I was a young teenager at that time and became a bit of a TV addict. At the weekends and during the school holidays I used to stay up late at night scouring the channels for movies, series, documentaries and music videos. I had so much fun doing that because the TV content back then was so good. In fact, the American programs that we used to get were always the best. Americans knew how to make awesome movies and series and were masters of entertainment while British TV in comparison was mostly quite mundane and uninspiring in my opinion, consisting of relatively dull and unimaginative movies, overly serious historical dramas, inane talk shows, lowbrow entertainment programs and reality trash, and Association Football.

[WanderingProtagonist]

Streaming may give people immediate access to everything fast, but come on...It's not the same and I don't pay for streaming services anyway...I use sites where I can stream stuff FREE. I'm not paying for Netflix, I hate Netflix and I can't stand all the wokeism they have advertised on it either. I really don't mind having things back to how it was years ago because I felt people enjoyed life more...Technology today has done nothing to make people happier. If anything it has honestly made life WORSE, and a whole lot more boring.
Sure I hated rewinding tapes back then, but I don't mind watching VHS movies if I had a VCR, and I can deal with the low resolution and gritty static effect.

Sometimes I'll even watch the previue guide scroll from back in the day, I know @Lucas88 probably remembers this I don't know if every country had this, but here in America we did. I often smell the inside of those VHS tapes and I swear lol I get some kind of hight off the scent because I have all these past memories of that one night my mother had bought so many VHS tapes, and I remember she was sitting on her bed taking the plastic wrap off all the tapes. She had almost every single popular movie you can think of. Dick Tracy, The Terminator 1-2, Splash, Batman, Superman II, Sound Of Music, just everything her bedroom was filled with VHS tapes. And I don't know how or why but we ended up losing them all, now she owns all those same movies on DVD. There had to be over 100+ VHS tapes she had back then. I use to watch the hell out of those movies. Then we had cable and I would watch HBO and Cinemax where I discovered all kinds of movies I never even heard of before. Same thing with Sundance channel...Damn the 90s and early 2000s was great...

I also really enjoyed scrolling through the channels late at night and sampling movies, series, music videos, sports events, etc. That was how I discovered new content. If the program seemed good, I would continue to watch it or record a repeat to VHS. Often the same movies were repeated later in the week for those who missed them. For example, if you missed a movie premier on Sky Movies 1 you would usually find multiple repeats of the same movie on Sky Movies 2 and 3. It made recording programs easy.

There was a certain beauty and charm to all of that. It made me feel like a treasure hunter going out and seeing if I could find something valuable and I discovered a helluva lot of new stuff that way. Most of the movies that I still like to this day I found by scrolling through TV channels when I was alone at night as a teenager. That includes a lot of obscure movies that I discovered purely by accident and wouldn't have ever known about them if it weren't for my TV treasure hunting episodes.

Today it is more convenient in many ways to stream movies and series through Netflix and other online platforms but the magic of 90s and early 2000s TV has been largely lost. I actually loved having to watch the movie or series at a set time and even watching through the intermittent commercials which back then were fun and sometimes hilarious. I would often make a night out of it, having all of my soft drunks and munchies prepared just before the program was about to start. It was way more fun than streaming movies and series today.

Here is an example of a hilarious commercial from 2002:



Speaking of VHS, I used to make recordings of all of the WWF pay per views which, in the UK at that time, were aired on Channel 4 or Sky Sports 1 and therefore incurred no extra cost! We also had some men's channels such as Men and Motors which featured softcore porn late at night and I used to set the programs to record and keep them on VHS tapes which I would disguise as WWF events. Lol! I'd write on the label things like "WWF Backlash" so that my momma wouldn't suspect anything. LMAO!

I used to have a whole load of VHS tapes with recorded movies, wrestling events, obscure documentaries and softcore porn but I too don't know what happened to them and they're now obsolete technology. Even if I found them I wouldn't be able to play them. If I remember correctly, I no longer own even a DVD player.

Last night, after making my OP, I began watching some TV from 2001 on the same website. It was surreal. I came across music videos from my era growing up, news reports of 911 ( ), and then I found a horror and mystery series called Night Visions which I couldn't stop watching – found using the same old TV treasure hunting method that I used to use when I was a kid!!!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_V ... TV_series)



Man, American TV reached the height of its quality in the early 2000s. Many of the movies and series were just excellent.

lol that fake labeling thing on the tape to hide what was really on it, I did that too
I have noticed that nostalgia is outdoing modern media. And I found an article somewhere else that was saying people are going back to renting movies from stores vs streaming them. It sucks Blockbuster died though. I went there a lot in the middle half of the 2000s.

[MrMan]

Sorry Lucas88. I remembered the poster was from the UK and got confused.

I'd read somewhere that the UK did not have real TV (just BBC) until the 1990s.

[Lucas88]

Sorry Lucas88. I remembered the poster was from the UK and got confused.

I'd read somewhere that the UK did not have real TV (just BBC) until the 1990s.

Here is a video about how TV in the UK evolved from the 80s (the actual content begins around the 3:15 mark):



The UK had four free-to-air public broadcast channels in 1982 (BBC1, BBC2, ITV and Channel 4).

In the same decade there emerged various local cable networks which offered additional channels. However, none of them seemed very good and TV in the UK didn't become good until SKY TV became well-established.

[WanderingProtagonist]

Sorry Lucas88. I remembered the poster was from the UK and got confused.

I'd read somewhere that the UK did not have real TV (just BBC) until the 1990s.

Here is a video about how TV in the UK evolved from the 80s (the actual content begins around the 3:15 mark):



The UK had four free-to-air public broadcast channels in 1982 (BBC1, BBC2, ITV and Channel 4).

In the same decade there emerged various local cable networks which offered additional channels. However, none of them seemed very good and TV in the UK didn't become good until SKY TV became well-established.

Yeah the best television was airing in the States back in those days, but even much earlier before that. Even 1940s television had good stuff, my mother was a fan of I Luv Lucy. I never watched it but the show was quite clever for it's time. Television has declined horribly bad now...When I heard that MTV was shutting down, I was like "damn" we've lost so much over the years for entertainment. MTV was going down hill when they decided to go from being a music channel to reality tv. They could have just went back to being a music channel with a few regular programming on there but get rid of all the reality garbage. The first Real World was enough but they had to expand upon it, then came Road Rules...After that Jersey Shore, Teen Mom, 16 and Pregnant, they just wouldn't stop with the suicide.