Comments by "Rob Fraser" (@krashd) on "TV: A Forgotten History" video.

@MrWATCHthisWAY White noise.. oh how I miss white noise. Waking up at 3am to see and hear that hissing snow, it was actually soothing at times.
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I had heard somewhere that the fax was older than the phone but I never bothered to look it up but now I see where the bit of trivia comes from. Weird to think that something which only really became popular around 1980 was in fact invented more than a century earlier...
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@caw25sha I knew someone with a pay as you go rental where it went off if you didn't put 50p pieces in the top. This was in the 80's obviously when everything was 50p, gas, electricity, etc. If you ran out of 50p pieces you were shit out of luck - you could have ten grand in the bank but you would still be eating a cold supper if someone didn't go to a neighbour's house and ask for change.
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