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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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When I was a kid I identified old TV shows because they were black and white... (lemmy.world)

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These days, kids identify them by the aspect ratio.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

... or how blurry the image is (SD vs HD).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You mean 4k vs HD, right?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Radio vs TV for Boomers

B&W vs Color for Gen X

SD vs HD would be Millenials

4K vs HD for Zoomers

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m late gen X so that doesn’t fly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

And video quality. Watching some historical videos from my childhood, like tv shows on youtube.... the quality is pure potato. Either the archiving is terrible, or we just accepted much worse quality back then.