My favorite 1980's Canadian TV show: Bits and Bytes
I love this adorable little TV show so much. Old TV is just so quaint: it’s much slower paced than today’s media, there’s less jump cuts, and the screen transitions and animations are often quirky. There’s not as much industry-wide “best practices”, so there’s a much greater variance in quality, and thus variety of unique little gems.
But I think the main reason I love it so much is because, compared to today: they have a MUCH higher bar of what they think the layperson is capable of understanding
Luba Goy then tells us that we’re going to learn how to USE a computer. This is important, this is NOT a TV show about how computers work. It’s NOT meant to inspire kids to pursue engineering or whatever. This is for the average person who just wants to use a computer to do every day things, like their taxes.
It is very clear who the audience is supposed to be, because we have Billy Van representing “the average person who knows nothing about computers but wants to learn”.
