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oh you know what might be difficult to explain to the next generation? teletext. before digital tv, there was analog tv. and yet it had a digital unidirectional/read-only internet-like service accessed via the tv remote that visually resembled a zx spectrum game or something
(explaining something to people a decade younger than me) well you see it's just like [thing only people several decades older than me remember]
you could stretch the text window/layer 2x vertically so you only saw half at once. you could also make it transparent
@hikari this is also meaningless to people who grew up outside of europe
@hikari it’s difficult to explain to the current generation if you’re not European.