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If you were born in 1976 like me, congratulations: you are officially a card-carrying member of Generation X. We are the bridge generation. We are the last humans on earth who know what a dial tone sounds like, how to fix a cassette tape with a pencil, and most importantly, the sheer, character-building agony of watching television in the 1980s. Whenever I look at how kids consume media today, I feel like a grizzled war veteran. Kids today have an iPad shoved in their hands with instant, 4K access to every piece of visual media ever recorded in human history. They tap a screen, and boom—instant gratification. I look at them and think, “You know nothing of patience. My patience was forged in the mechanical groaning of a motorized roof antenna.” Let’s take a trip down memory lane and look at how TV used to be for those of us growing up in the analog trenches. The Single, Immovable Object Back in the day, there was no such thing as "a TV in every room." There was exactly one television in