Just for you: in 1992, in Boise, Idaho, I was asked (by a 16 year old boy, a local) whether I knew what a TV remote control is, and he then proceeded to explain to me as well the miracle of video recording. I was 14 at the time.
That's a pretty different case though since (a) you were kids, and (b) those were two things that had hit mass market success only about a decade before.
Just for you: in 1992, in Boise, Idaho, I was asked (by a 16 year old boy, a local) whether I knew what a TV remote control is, and he then proceeded to explain to me as well the miracle of video recording. I was 14 at the time.
I am western European.
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