MTV debuted 40 years ago today

I use to love watching music videos on TV while I was growing up, still watch them on YouTube sometimes. Here is the debut of MTV…

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That’s cool,

Thanks for sharing.

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Duuuuude… I’m old :joy:

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This was like a month before I was born.

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Snot-nosed punk.

YOU KIDS GET OFF MY LAWN!!!

[ waves cane ]

:persevere:

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I was watching those two back-up singers. There seems to be some hostility there?

Yeah, reminds me of the good old days when I was 20 and I was locked up in the hospital with 80 other seriously disturbed people. Yeah, massive doses of prolixen every night. Makes me feel nostalgic.

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I watched it live. Just 3 days prior I had signed a 6-year contract with the U.S. Navy.

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mtv ain’t what it was to me back in the beginning…we would always watch our favorite videos in the bars in college…everyone loved mtv…not anymore…not for me anyways…

I think the Internet and YouTube helped lead to the death of MTV and channels like it around the world. With MTV you would have to sit and wait for them to play a video you wanted to see, back then it was new and exciting and I didn’t mind watching videos even if they were not my favourite songs but now with YouTube it’s instant gratification, I can watch what I want when I want.

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