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We can guess your age based on your earliest TV memories
Did you first start watching shows in black and white or color? Did you have 3 channels or 300?
Like many other things, how we consume entertainment has changed a lot in the last half century. Ever since the dawn of television, a new innovation occurred at least once a decade, meaning kids born just a few years later had a different experience.
Whether it was switching to color, getting new channels with cable, adding things like video games and VHS players or never knowing a time before any of those, your earliest experiences in front of a television set can reveal a lot about you. Maybe even your age!
Answers these nostalgic questions about your earliest TV memories and find out if we can guess your exact age or if we’re way off.
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Was the very first TV show you ever watched in black and white or color?
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What type of set was the first television you watched?
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What was the first TV remote you ever held?
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How many channels could you watch in your earliest TV days?
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Did you always have a TV or do you remember the day you got one?
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What did you have hooked up to the TV in your earliest memories?
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What’s the first television event you remember watching?
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Who was a TV hero you admired as a kid?
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What kind of snacks did you eat when you watched TV as a kid?
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What kind of drink did you sip when you watched TV as a kid?
We can guess your age based on your earliest TV memories
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I'm 45, not 43, but close enough. I don't remember what our remote looked like, but I did my best.
Off by two years. Not that great a test when ya have to lie to finish it. At least two questions should have had a none of the above selection. We didn't have drinks or snacks while watching tv because it was right after the meal that we turned the thing on. The days when all eating was done at the kitchen table.
You are 43 Im +3
They came close, but they thought I was slightly older. I'm 61, and they guessed 64. (I do have a sister who's becoming 63 next month.) I wonder whether they thought I was older because the earliest TV(s) I remember didn't have a remote. Remotes did exist at the time, but they were more of a luxury and our family had to be frugal with a simple TV. We normally had only one TV in the house, and it was always black and white and without a remote until 1977, when we finally got a color set (our venerable black and white being in need of replacement). I think we still didn't have a remote, though, until a little later when they started becoming standard.
I am not 99 yrs old.....
It got mine, 64. My wife who's 57 it guessed 72!
They said I'm 64. I'm 65. Good guess.
They said I'm 64
64. Only 3 years off.
Pretty close, was off by 4 years.
It says 72 but I'm late 60s, and Questions 7 through 10 did not apply to me. No. 7 should be - Mercury 7 rocket launches in the early 1960s or JFK in 1963 (I'm not sure). No. 8 should be Chuck McCann. No. 9 should be Stella Doros. No. 10 should be Milk (good for dunking Stella Doros).
56? Yup, that's me.
According to them, I'm 43. Thanks for the compliment--I'll be 53 in January! :-)
Yup I’ll be 64 in August
Close, I’m not 56, I’m 54
Pretty close, I'm 54 not 56.
Pretty close. I'm 52 and my score said 56. My first memories of the tv are Scooby Doo Where Are You and the Brady Bunch
I'm 59. They said 56. I had Kool Aid and I did eat Bugles with dip. But I don't remember Whistles or Daisies. I can only remember color TV and we had one of those Antennas on the roof attached to the chimney. It had a remote that was plugged into the outlet. It was attached to a very long flat plastic wire and the remote was a big round dial that turned the Antenna to different channels.
said 72. im only 68!
I'm 34 going on 42 :/