2007-01-08 08:20:08 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
only posh people could afford them and they came in black and white and they enjoyed watching snooker
2007-01-08 08:28:06 · answer #1 · answered by sammie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Before tv came about people used to gather together for a sing song on the old joanna(piano) familys were very much a unit in them days the art of conversation was used extensivly , pubs were always full . it was a meeting place for the local community
there were pub games like shuv halfpenny, snooker, darts . bowls, indoor swing bowls, almost all pubs had teams which used to have matches and away matches , Televsion destroyed all that , now we do not even mix or know our next door neigbours
comminitys are fractured with little communication at all . and what have we got now total mind bending trash with hardly one program that is worth a second glance, and the final indignaty
Big brother , a gathering of the biggest load of morons (desperate for fame or money ) the world has ever seen gathered into one place for the delictation of very very sad people, hopeing to see some idiot worse of than they are
2007-01-09 07:07:16 · answer #2 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It meant:
you now watched the box and stayed quiet instead of watching the fire and talking.
Children had a source of education other than books and school.
Soccer matches dominated Saturdays, and top of the pops on Thursdays.
Gave the 'man of the house' something else to be in charge of, and kept him out of the pub until the news was over.
Banished the radio from the living room to the kitchen.
2007-01-08 17:28:06 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the early 50's and 60's, they used valves and were very heavy, so they made quite an impact, if you dropped an lcd one now, they would not make quite the same dent in the car park at all.
2007-01-08 16:24:22 · answer #4 · answered by spiegy2000 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Personally, it was watching the Hungarian uprising in 1956. It sensibilised me to the plight of refugees - people forced to leave their country - and it has influenced my life ever since. How ready were western countries to welcome those fleeing cummunism. How different it is today. The milk of human kindness only ran free when the refugees looked European. Now even that had changed.
2007-01-09 11:11:39 · answer #5 · answered by cymry3jones 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Presidential election was first seen in 1956. Eisenhower's second term.
2007-01-08 16:38:35 · answer #6 · answered by robert m 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it changed the way we lived, we didn`t go to the pictures as much, we just sat in front of the box and forgot how to interact as a family unit, i would say that tv radically changed our society, for better or worse?
2007-01-08 17:24:41 · answer #7 · answered by olly 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Really depends on what height, the weight of the TV in question and what they landed on.
2007-01-08 16:40:17 · answer #8 · answered by creviazuk 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A couple of watchable rock programmes(not many) the rest was just a load of shite.
2007-01-08 16:26:25 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
cable tv ....black and white to colored tv more than 3 channels.......oh gee no mtv or reality shows just real acting
2007-01-08 17:13:57 · answer #10 · answered by STORMY K 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋