Come now, remotes have been around for thousands of years. I remember Fred Flintstone had one. When he used it a little bird or something flew out of it and went over to the tv and turned it on or off. You remember those things, right?
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I remember before the universal remote and what not. You had one for each device. Before that the remote was connected by a wire. The predecessor to that was a large box with a button for each channel. Before that my father would just tell one of us kids to turn up the volume/change the channel/rotate the antenna.
The bartender. I don't have a TV at home, so pretty much the only time I watch TV is at the bar.
"The buttons"