I remember well these clickers. My grandpa Bill had one and I was allowed to click away to my heart's content. Fortunately, there were only three television channels at the time so with each click, one of three network programs appeared: NBC, CBS, ABC.
I could not even imagine how this magic worked. It was truly as if from some mysterious space command.
Today we take for granted the magic of wireless everything, but for some of us old enough to remember, the transition from manually turning the channel selector knob on the television to clicking it from afar was nothing short of a miracle ushering in the space age.
The remote control
I remember well these clickers. My grandpa Bill had one and I was allowed to click away to my heart's content. Fortunately, there were only three television channels at the time so with each click, one of three network programs appeared: NBC, CBS, ABC.
I could not even imagine how this magic worked. It was truly as if from some mysterious space command.
Today we take for granted the magic of wireless everything, but for some of us old enough to remember, the transition from manually turning the channel selector knob on the television to clicking it from afar was nothing short of a miracle ushering in the space age.
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