Originally Posted by
Jerry Oz
I think we got cable around 1975. We got HBO in its first form shortly after and that was great. They would start around 5:00pm and show movies until just after midnight. Their guide was a tiny little booklet that I pored over intently when it arrived with each month's bill. No boxing, comedy specials or series back then. A couple years later, we got Cinemax, which all of my class mates loved because every few weeks, a soft porn movie would pop into the lineup. To be honest, I miss the days of fewer options. I visit the folks once a week and they have more than 200 channels, yet they only watch the same local stations we always watched [[except for ESPN, CNN and which station is showing the Cavaliers game).