• baatliwala@lemmy.worldOP
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    19 days ago

    Eh? It certainly wasn’t much of a thing especially with ongoing shows, and even for older ones you had to be invested enough to purchase DVDs or wait for cable to re-run (which had a ton of ads)

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      19 days ago

      Even on regular television binge watching was possible. CSI, Law&Order, General Hospital, Days of our lives… And many more would do marathons all the time.

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      19 days ago

      Binging just means to consume large amounts of something. I guess it means to consume new TV shows, specifically, nowadays. In which case, I’m just an old man yelling at clouds and I’m sorry.

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        18 days ago

        I guess it means to consume new TV shows, specifically, nowadays.

        It doesn’t, TechCrunch is always full of shit.

        Binge-watching has been a thing for at decades, long before Netflix started enabling it. I had VHS tapes of shows I loved that I taped off of live TV. VHS tapes weren’t super expensive by the late nineties so I had several tapes of the Simpsons.

        I also downloaded shows in the early 2000s to binge-watch.