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How Internet Killed Television

Internet oh internet. You couldn't say you hate it, but you couldn't also say that it's always good. I grow up watching Catdog on our cute picture tube 21-inch heavy as a rock television on a daily basis. Whenever we wanted to get entertainment we tune in to our television to watch soap dramas, but if you found local channels boring, a premium "Cable-Television" subscription is your answer to your information-hungry mind. Going back to the ample life of no internet in 1996, all people have are the DJ's in the radio to request their playlist, and Home shopping networks to see new products unavailable to your local community Market.  These are all great if you lived in those days, but it wasn't this advanced. I remember growing up to our community market, going to some Chinese merchandising shops to search for cheap treats, and I never thought that internet will be killing these old habits of ours. I had my first desktop in 1998, it was a windows 97 PC wi