Anyone remember that brief period before the internet where there was no way to get information on anything and everything was just mysterious unknown machination beyond your means of comprehension?
How were you supposed to know who made any given movie/tv show that you came across on whatever channel was feeding programming onto your box. How were you supposed to know basic information like what else they made, who made it, or why this channel had decided to air it or why it was even made to begin with.
Horrific.
I was born in 2002 so no, I don’t know. Honestly I can imagine life without YouTube and streaming services being fine but the one thing I can’t imagine is having absolutely no way to easily access information. God, like, imagine needing to comb through books in libraries in order to get information. Or god forbid - watch the NEWS. Dark times that must’ve been.
hilarious, theres no way people left their rooms, even disney doesnt get that fake.
>needing to comb through books in libraries in order to get information
there's not much difference. most households had a wikipedia-lite lexicon or dictionary or yellow pages, it took more time sure, wasn't as covenient, but it wasn't that different
same with news. tday its propaganda 100%. have to find out what happened through alternate channels. same thing in the 1900s. u only cared for what happened in your town, news spread on meetings, gossip, at work, instead of social media
>most households had a wikipedia-lite lexicon or dictionary or yellow pages
it was called an almanac, my dude
We'd just hit up the Encyclopedia Britannia at the library. It was in alphabetical order so didn't take long to find something. I mean, you weren't gonna find out the year your favorite musician was born, their star sign, and whether their parents were israeli or not, but it covered major concepts in life. Like if you wanted to find out what food seals eat or whatever it'd be there, or at the very least it'd tell you where to find more info about it like Dewey Decimal 599.79 (natural sciences, animals, mammals, seals). Go to that shelf in the library and there will be books about seals.
It sounds like a nightmare, but it wasn't too bad. It was pretty comfy actually. Life wasn't bogged down by a million useless details.
>he didn’t do the Dewey.
Library pleb
>We'd just hit up the Encyclopedia Britannia at the library.
This.
Used to skim through old magazines and newspapers there too. You'd find all kinds of fascinating shit.
The library was the original internet. Fat smelly incels used it as a place to jack off.
incels didn't even exist until like 2012-2014
If in the before times you were too autistic to get girls, you didn't make that your entire personality and lifestyle and didn't spend 18 hours a day collecting jpegs of graphs off of LULZ, you'd just double down on your hobbies which ironically would result in a lot of sexless nerd bros meeting nerd girls.
>incels didn't even exist until like 2012-2014
you meme at me because it's true. Incels, wojaks, frogposting, zoomers. It's all from the last decade.
Tell me more.
There's a direct correlation between the spike in sexless adults and the creation of hub-style porn websites starting in 2007. It was also the first wave of newbies on Cinemaphile with chanology and exploding vans and habbo hotel and "the far left hacker known as Cinemaphile" on fox news etc.
But let's blame instagram and facebook and other websites and apps we don't even use.
Remember those Encyclopedia Britannica commercials with the Jeffrey Dahmer looking teenager? Lol everyone hated him.
>Man this computer sure is useless, this technology will never go anywhere
>I was born in 2002
You need to leave this website.
Those were better, more magical times. It was always fun to discover a new good film. Now you know everything about a movie before you even watch it.
i watched apocalypse now for the first time a few weeks ago and i didnt know anything about it before watching it
No one forces you to read spoilers.
They had entertainment magazines. Genre stuff like scifi would often even have mags dedicated entirely to one show even. And yeah people bought them because they were usually 2 or 3 bucks a pop or even less if you just bought a subscription which back then was 10 -15 bucks a year and it's not like you needed to have 80 other subscriptions for bullshit like a carseat warmer.
No one remembers a time before information because no one is still alive from before the printing press. You should be embarrassed for making a thread that makes you look so stupid. And book indexes are unironically easier to use than the internet.
U dude is anticool. Im bein half-abouriginals knows stuff u have not seen. My fathers digged earth. Saw stars on the sky, big flames. Smoked pot wipes gave us when I was little as a dog. All these memories. They r lost. To time. Like posts on Cinemaphile.
birthed 82
we (parents, everybody) bought stuff called newspapers. usually backsides filled with "wuts on tv"-schedule, aka 6pm onwards. Fewer channels, easier to browse, easier to choose. Had a column with some filmschool-jerk sucking godard-dicks whom rated the movies, often given shitty oscar baits top rate while lowscoring kinos like Friday 13th, Speed Racer, Die Hard or Conan Barbaric, thumbs up and two stars.
>oh you just gotta see this Bergman flick
shitfrickers, I'd say, they ruined lives, I'd say
I was 6 years old. Decided to stay up til AM. 00. Zapped through the channels. Yikes, were the skinflicks at that time. I remember a scene where a bald dwarf was trying to penetrate some blonde bimbo with bolt-ons. disgusting. Didn't watch porn for two decades after that experiences. Wasn't until I catched a glimpse of a hooters magazine at a gas station. Then I saw Hitomi Tanaka debute in Score, and now I'm hooked for life.
>How were you supposed to know who made any given movie/tv show that you came across
isn't that what credits are for?
breasts OR GTFO there's no way a real man wrote that nonsense
The director was on the box moron and you could look around the video store for any other boxes with that name. The guy at the register had a computer and you could look up if they had any other movies. There were these things called books about movies and you could get a book on great directors that would have all that information. A library was like wikipedia you could go down whatever rabbithole you want.
TLDR: Everything on the internet is basically just an online library. Oh and back then you had friends you can ask and you'd have to make friends with other film nerds instead of just googling it.
You looked stuff up in the dictionary and encyclopedia that you had at home, or used the card catalog at the library to find a book about it. It wasn’t bad at all, it was fun actually. Part of the reason zoomers dont even understand file systems is because they never had to do this. Too much convenience is bad for people, they get soft and stupid and helpless
zoomer here (borned 2002), be gentle, how did u guys, meet girls, when tinder wasn't a thing?
People used to leave their houses instead of sitting inside all day looking at a computer or phone screen. There were more spontaneous encounters with groups of friends and acquaintances, more places people just hung out, like coffee shop or bar or store
This has always been claimed by every generation, before internet and smartphones it was because of TV, you can see in early Simpsons episodes where TV is blamed for the same reason internet is now.
Have you considered that maybe they were right and that things have only been getting progressively worse with each new generation?
Probably, but this trend started at least since the end of 19th century, the alternative is to become Amish style
As someone from the previous generation I can tell you, at least from my own cherry picked argumentum ad ergo sum latinus fallacious argument, that things aren't really any worse. Some things are way better, some things are worse of course. overall though I'd say it's good enough.
Childhood nostalgia aside, I wouldn't really want to go back to 1993.
>that things aren't really any worse
Were you just not alive for the past 3 years or something? Covid into inflation?
I prefer COVID over AIDS.
Yeah no 40 years later AIDS is manageable and all that, but at the time? No one frickin knew what was gonna happen.
Same with Chernobyl, of course zoomers now know the ending of the TV series but as it was happening in real time in the 80s? People were shitting bricks, having a giant radioactive hoel in the ground just farting radiation out into the planet into the end of time.
And the economy as well as armed conflicts around the globe were much worse in the 80s.
Aids is only an issue if you're a gay who takes wiener in the ass. So you're a homosexual
Again, something that we have the luxury of looking back at 40 years later.
The only thing that's worse these days is how totally easy it is to have all your shit stolen by just clicking on the wrong thing. it used to be that if people wanted to steal money they'd rob you or hold up the bank, now they just send you an infected PDF that you accidentally download while your phone was rubbing up on your ass inside your pocket.
You are delusional
ad hominem, not an argument.
>The only thing that's worse these days
wtf did this troony mean by this? get virus protection moron
>pollution and urban expansion is a good thing
is that your point? insane moron
pollution is a side effect of modern civilization.
If you don't like it, why are you posting on the internet using a computerphone? Why aren't you not posting on the internet at all since you're too busy chopping firewood on your off-grid cabin?
It’s illegal to be off grid. The feds jusy show up and kill you. I post online like this and blast redpills at everyone 24/7, or at least while I’m bored at work.
Regardless we should be able to have fricking phones. It’s the planned obsolescence and other israeli shit ruining everything. We can have our cake and eat it too without israelites dumping poison into the ocean to make stupid frivolous shit that should exist, and miles and miles and hundreds of miles of highway and pavement for dollar generals and Starbucks. There’s so much abandoned and underdeveloped urban areas that could easily be rebuilt but instead israelites buy 100 miles of Everglades from the federal trannies and dump tar and plastic all over it. But I’m the bigot here I guess.
No they won't.
>uncle Ted
He was mailing bombs to people
>Ruby Ridge
Had a warrant out for his arrest because he skipped a court date
There are entire communes out in the deserts of Cali where hippies have been living off-grid for 50 years. Touch grass
>go live in the middle of the desert bro
that’s a far cry from having your own homestead and chopping wood for fire, etc. you’d have cops swarming your yard shooting all your livestock and dragging your children kicking and screaming into state homes
wtf is your point? society is in exponential decline and I’m supposed to pretend it’s a good thing like trannies do? no
>*shit that doesn't happen* will happen, bro! Believe me, it will! Even though it hasn't, I know it will because some schizo on the internet said the Revolution is habbening in Two Weeks!
Blackpillers need to be executed, they're as dangerous to society as the Loony Troons.
>society is in exponential decline
Not literally, of course.
>The overwhelming majority of pollution comes from China
Americans always pull this fast card out, without a single milligram of awareness that literally everything they consume was made cheaply and quickly in China explicitly for them and their American needs.
>"China shouldn't be held to the same standard"
Like clockwork
Well no that's the whole reason why all the manufacturing jobs were moved their in the first place.
No regulation = cheaper for manufacturing = not really all that cheaper for the consumer but better than nothing = good.
China didn't force America to send all of its manufacturing overseas.
>I post online like this and blast redpills at everyone 24/7,
>The steam engine made me do this
>I would have been a Chad before the Industrial Revolution
>Thomas Newcomen ruined my formative years
>tar the Everglades! more trans kids clinics!
after this fourth Industrial Revolution peters out and the scarcity wars begin I’ll be using your corpse as mulch for my crops
hey man I've been saying that pollution is bad since I was a kid. No my problem that some people on the right started to realize that they live on the same planet as the environment, as they do the typical right wing move of blaming outsiders.
The environment is fine, and the reason you think we're standing on the precipice of ecological disaster is because you were raised by doomsday cultists.
And? The west didn't force China to dump raw sewage into the ocean or burn plastic. Nothing is stopping them from cleaning up their bullshit, either.
They are literally responsible for over 90% of all plastic in the ocean.
>The environment is fine
>also PLASTICS AAAAAAAAAAAAAH FRICK
?
It by and large IS fine, especially in the west. The Yangtse being more industrial waste than water has little bearing on Europe or the US.
so why are you mad at china for ruining the environment, which is also totally fine
plastic in the ocean is a meme. It's what tik tok influencers and youtubers pick up for "charity".
The real shit is the chemical that leeches from plastic waste. That shit is in the rain and glaciers and everywhere in all your food. China didn't even that either, again that's from good old fashion "sweep that shit underneath the rug" American ingenuity.
People from barely a few generations ago had no idea they were killing themselves with lead pipes and asbestos everythings, they barely realized that uranium was radioactive. They certainly had no idea how plastics were bad for you.
It's still a matter of debate on whether it's actually bad for you, and how much of it is so. Regardless, it's not going to cause mass extinction events or "global warming" or whatever alarmist bullshit the left is harping about today.
I'm not, I'm pointing out to you that it is factually incorrect to blame the West or western israelites for the stuff that concerns you, because most of the stuff you are worried about is caused by third worlders on the other side of the planet. You won't fix that by "eating the Rich israelites" or whatever the frick you're proposing, you're barking up the wrong tree.
And most of what you're crying about doesn't even apply to the US anyway, the state of Wyoming has more protected wilderness than half all EU memberstates combined.
Third worlder on the other side of the planet here, our main problem is the West and the western israelites.
>And most of what you're crying about doesn't even apply to the US anyway
whoops
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aaz5819
Microplastics were present in 98% of all of the wet and dry samples analyzed from U.S. protected areas.
If this was 1986 you'd be talking about how there's no need to worry about some ruskie power station in siberia somewhere
Read the first half of my comment, brainlet.
What is it with zoomers and reading comprehension? They're in this constant reactionary state of emotional hysteria, where they refuse to engage their logical brain at all. Like a fricking woman
So are microplastics good?
shit, I guess we'll never know now
Literally everything in your room right now that's not food is made in China. Your gaming desktop and the keyboard and mouse and monitor and all the individual components, the desk it's sitting on, all the anime dolls or manly figures that you collect, the gamer chair you're sitting in, the clothes you're wearing, etc.
Go through your posessions, you'll have an easier time listing what WASN'T made in China rather that what was.
Bonus points for anything manufactured not-in China past the 80s. Of course everyone has antiques somewhere in their house.
No shit. Doesn't change the fact that China are responsible for their environmental practises, not the west.
>are they good
No.
>are they bad
Probably, jury is still out on how bad and what long-term effects they have.
Also.
>israelites dumping poison into the ocean, strip malls, suburban sprawl
Basic-b***h Al Gore greenpeace agitprop from 1998. The overwhelming majority of pollution comes from China and India, urban life is anti-human. You talk like a homosexual and your shit's all moronic
>israeli pollution is good because of Al Gore or something
??????
>illiterate
Jews aren't polluting, third worlders are. You are blaming the 'Jews' (capitalists) because your opinions are informed by Marxism. You have simply swapped the word "capitalist" with "Jew" because you believe all the corporations are ran by israelites. I reiterate: you talk like a gay and your shit's all moronic.
yeah no I'm sure that the dirt farmers of pershwad province in whatever -stan country are to blame for the 50 years of plastic buried in landfills
Makes me laugh whenever people get alarmist about covid or climate change or the various wars or whatever now. All of that (pollution, ozone layer, mutually assured destruction, constant threat of nukes, terrorism etc) used to be so much worse just a few decades ago and yet the world is still here and pretty okay all things considered
Every generation thinks they have it rough. I was watching a movie from the 90's and the boomers back then were b***hing about how shitty the world is and how hard is it to make it despite having it better than any other group of human beings in recorded human history by pretty much every metric.
This we used to have an actual society but now it’s nothing but pavement and corpos and garbage and mentally ill sickos smoking and drinking and staring at a screen and doing nothing else. I always laugh when normons tell me to touch grass. Dude the grass in FIFA when you get home from waging doesn’t count, lmao
>pavement and screens didn't exist until 2010
'Pavement culture' was a term invented in the 1920s to describe urban postindustrial-revolution European society.
if you followed these steps (left your house to get information / stuff) half the people outside would be girls
The same way you meet them now, be attractive and go out into any public space.
>The same way you meet them now
not really
The old joke used to be youd tell people you met in a bar to avoid the shame of saying you met online. Now the opposite is true.
The people with lasting marriages met at church.
people used to hang out instead of sitting isolated indoors living through the internet
This was true only if you were already popular.
If you weren't already declared a Chad or Normie by the time 7th grade rolled around then you were fricked, had to eat lunch at Those Kids' table, and had to go look on MSN Messenger and later Myspace for girls from another high school across town.
>This was true only if you were already popular.
No. There were parallel social scenes. Zoomies see words like "goth" and think it's just a pornhub tag. But everyone from middle school through college age used to live out subcultures instead of just dress up in them for tik tok views or onlyfans donations. In the 80s and 90s if you literally had no friends it was 100% on you.
>But everyone from middle school through college age used to live out subcultures
Right, and imagine you're one of 3 people in your entire high school who are part of that subculture. And the one girl in that subculture already decided 4 years ago that you weren't attractive.
That was it, that was your entire dating pool. No way of meeting new people. Unless it was through the internet.
>In the 80s and 90s if you literally had no friends it was 100% on you.
Oh but with zoomers it's totally not their fault at all? lmao cope
the girls weren't on tinder either moron. Tinder didn't just suddenly unlock girls
Boredom is a powerful motivator to go out and talk to people. My friends and I would just sit at the beach and talk shit, and random people our age, both men and women, would sometimes come up to us and have a little chat. Sometimes it clicked right away and we hung out and sometimes it didnt and they moved on. Simple as
>How were you supposed to know who made any given movie/tv show that you came across on whatever channel was feeding programming onto your box.
They had hosts like TCM does now, at least on the UHF channels.
>How were you supposed to know who made any given movie/tv show that you came across on whatever channel was feeding programming onto your box. How were you supposed to know basic information like what else they made, who made it, or why this channel had decided to air it or why it was even made to begin with.
>Horrific.
The internet existed back then. But it was made of paper and called magazines.
If you wanted to know about movies, you read movie magazines. If you wanted insight into politics or satire you read political commentary and satirical magazines.
Same with music. Same with fashion/trends/culture stuff.
And because there was some level of competition,. certain magazines would be spicier than others. Some more intellectual. Others more loosy-goosy and irreverent.
And people would trade info from whatever they were reading. They'd hang at a cafe or milkbar or whatever and shoot hte shit overs tuff they'd read or heard about during the week. Just like on the internet.
If you were really hardcore you'd have a buddy who worked in a bookshop or something similar and he'd tell you about stuff being talked about in the trade magazines.
Basically, "Forums" and word-of-mouth have existed as an cultural institution/concept for at least 4 thousand years, anon. And shooting the shit and even trolling has existed at least the same amount of time. In more unofficial contexts, people would spin yarns and tell spooky tales around a campfire at night.
Don’t forget old school radio and all the weird shit that come on there.
"Letters to the editor" was analog shitposting.
books moron
Reading
Now explain how map reading and compasses
I think it was called a "library."
no, that's where I work out.
TV Guide, moron.
And that brief period of the tv guide channel just ran show listings all day.
> Anyone remember that brief period before the internet where there was no way to get information on anything and everything was just mysterious unknown machination beyond your means of comprehension?
>that brief period before the internet
are you referring to all of human history up until Google and Wikipedia were available?
Don’t forget ham and cb radios. People have being arguing with strangers over dumb bullshit long before aliens invented the internet.
And people would sell them door to door. It was cool to find older ones with maps before the wars
it was literally Ignorance is Bliss and people were happier for it
94, no 🙁
Zoomer detected
>tv guide
>several ads about the shows of the season
>"you're watching X show in y Channel"
Unless you were watching some obscure shit, you could figure it out
There were film
And television magazines.
>that brief period before the internet
also known as: the vast majority of human history?
>brief period
>actually most of history
We had a lot of ways of finding out things. For tv and movies, we had newspaper sections, tv guide, magazines, and books. You could buy books full of information about movies. You could call companies and talk to real people or listen to recordings. There were fan clubs and fanzines. There were whole stores devoted to magazines and newspapers. My favorite one also had video rentals and you could talk to the people there about movies.
What we didn't have was millions of nerds writing endless wikifantrope pages about bullshit minutiae no one cared about because they were too busy living life.
They were called libraries, it makes sense if you cumbrained smoking zoomers have legitimately never heard of one.
I miss it so bad bros I just want to go back
Non French didn't have a minitel before internet
>The Minitel was a videotex online service accessible through telephone lines, and was the world's most successful online service prior to the World Wide Web. It was invented in Cesson-Sévigné, near Rennes, Brittany, France
>The service was rolled out experimentally on 15 July 1980[1] in Saint-Malo, France, and from autumn 1980 in other areas, and introduced commercially throughout France in 1982 by the PTT
>From its early days, users could make online purchases, make train reservations, check stock prices, search the telephone directory, have a mail box, and chat in a similar way to what is now made possible by the World Wide Web
Lmao
>finally, something that's infinitely more expensive and 100 times more inconvenient
>Anyone remember that brief period before the internet
>brief period before the internet
You mean like the 4.5 billions years on Earth before it? Yeah so brief
It was called a TV guide you fricking mongoloid
>that brief period before the internet
You mean all of human history up to that point?
The world didn't exist before the moment I was born in 1993 so that's not accurate.
As a cartoon network chad I grew up with shows like Toon Heads, The Chuck Jones Show, What a Cartoon Show and more that gave me the history of my favorite cartoons, who created them, who voiced them, what other works they've done. Oh, and by reading the fricking credits and recognizing names. I think you were just a moron, OP. Probably still are. Merry Christmas
>that brief period before the internet
You mean the 6 thousand years of recorded human history?
TV Guide. Newspaper. Magazines. All of which could be bought at brick and mortar shops and the library.
Physical media, in other words.
Why did THEY take this from us?
where are thge balcks qwtf?
I was in high school in the 2010s and the only difference was the fashion.
And Smart Phones and social media, larp harder
Which you couldn't use in school because the teachers would confiscate them, zoomer. The only time you'd have to actually fiddle with them was during lunch, but it was more fun to hang out with the bros and shittalk than to stare at your phone. The only people who did that were the 'hot' chicks and the losers with no friends.
Almost all of them look healthy. What happened?
>This was considered a comically obese person in the 2000s
shut the frick off bro you weren't even born yet or you were like 3 years old
You think that was the average soon-to-be Cinemaphilener's high school experience back in the 2000s?
what other cool zoomer memes do you have? "There was nothing political in the 2000s"?
hit a nerve did i zoomie?
>get exposed as zoomer
>"no u"
based and frogpilled
The only thing to change from 2008 was the stupid trends and stuff starting 2015 and its been the same or worse since then
I always felt the years one your older than mine in high school and middle school were like this. And the years younger than us were the mindless boogeyman drones that exist today
>What are books?
>What are newspapers?
>What are libraries?
Zoomers, here's a life tip: Stop being moronic. Educate yourself. Cherish your ancestors' culture.
knowing directors actually ruins immersion and is just moron sperg shit
You could read about things. Magazines existed.
You could also read the credits on the films you watched, the creators name is THE BIGGEST AND MOST PROMINENT CREDIT before the movie/show starts.
You absolute fricking moron.
This was basically the best book for film information prior to the internet. There was a new version every year and it was very useful to have
Entertainment news and info was dominated by print media back in the day. Magazines being the core source of info for that sort of stuff. There was magazines for every possible hobby and if you wanted to keep up on what was going on you had a few subscriptions.
The idea you might want to see this actor entire list of movies going back 20 years never really entered people's minds as it wasn't an easy option in the first place.
It like how waiting around with a tape deck ready to so you could record a hot new song off the radio was the go to way to get a new tune to play over and over before it was released. There wasn't any other option so it didn't seem strange like it does now.
Remember neckbeards? I miss those.
How come modern zoomer nerds are all rosey-cheeked with necks and faces as smooth as a baby's bottom
I fricking hate current year so much
getting real tired of zoomer homosexuals like you asking this question over and over and then ignoring or arguing with everyone who tells you it was nothing like what you think it was.
>give me your house
>that brief period before the internet
>brief
Lol. Also my tv guide came with the names of the cast and director plus brief synopses for every decent movie that was playing that week.
What baffles me the most about zoomers. is they have unlimited access to google and the internet and yet. they're the most moronic, uneducated generation of all time. Like you can literally google and educate yourself on ANYTHING you want at anytime and yet. they're all just a bunch of clueless mongoloids who make threads like these.
I think it goes with the saying of "if your mind is too open, your brain falls out and you fill your mind with garbage"
But also option paralysis. Less is more. When you have all of the entire world at your fingertips you don't really know where to start or where to look so you just give up.
Same with appreciating music and movies and TV. It's not necessarily better or worse these days, it's just that these days people just consooooooom media as if it was cocaine. *SNIFFFF* done, Next!
Back in the day one CD of music or one VHS movie could give you pleasure for years and years and years. Zoomers and admittedily everyone else online these days barely enjoy things as they're experiencing them.
Doubly so with porn.
>zoomers are too busy watching and giving money to their favourite twitch streamer to educate themselves
There were movies guides (as in books) and magazines. Fandoms had their own newsletters and subscriptions. The info was out there but yeah, you had to search to find it.
You know how you zoomers watch 5 hour long youtube essays discussing the latest goyslop? Well we had late night cultural review shows which were basically the same thing, except they weren't random trannies they were film historians or music aficionados, and instead of taking 5 hours they made cogent points in 10 minute segments and instead of it being clickbait it was interesting, intelligent and informative.
Also the same as now - a movie comes out and there is the promo tour, the director does the rounds, interviewers ask them about their previous work, their influences whatever. Anything you watch now online was just the same thing on broadcast tv instead, and anything you read now was just in magazines instead of forums. It's really not that hard to imagine, not that different. The main difference now is the democratization of comment and the ability for more people to have more interactions in real time, which has been a disaster tbqh, resulting in said youtube trannies but no more actual information being available (although, granted, faster and more widespread dissemination of the info)
Goto library, hang out in rare book room reading everything. Listen to short wave radio. Share books and info in local circles. This is what people did before the web was big. I was fully redpilled in1988. Merry Christmas homosexuals, you are here forever.
Magazines, newspapers, documentaries, and books. homie you are dumb.
every week you got a magazine in the mail called TV Guide. It told you what movies were playing and very basic information like how many stars it had and who starred in it. If you wanted to know more you had to watch the opening credits. Also, most films would have behind the scenes advertisements. When A Nightmare Before Christmas was coming out, they aired behind the scenes footage to promote the movie on tv. There was even a special tv show called Movie Magic that just showed behind the scenes footage from various films.
When DVDs came out and they could hold special features and this all ended.