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Matty McTech brings back channel surfing, commercials included

BackWhen TV's blue program guide anchors four new uploads, alongside a Windows shortcut and an Arduino-powered Dino game.

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Turn your television into the 90s

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The old commercials are the attraction, not the interruption. In "Turn your television into the 90s", Matty McTech installs BackWhen TV on Roku, opens its vintage blue cable guide and works his way toward decade-specific advertising channels. A Sears spot gets its own moment.

The tutorial is the most watched of his four new uploads, with about 403,000 views, and it is also his busiest video for daily views right now. Viewers are discussing the strange appeal of deliberately watching yesterday's ads. Others are correcting his closing identification of Tim "The Toolman" Taylor, pointing instead to Bob Vila, while one recalls falling asleep to the scrolling TV guide itself.

Television has become a productive little corner of the channel. "This Smart TV trick is Insane", posted just before this week's run, explores Roku's hidden menus and is approaching a million views. It remains the next-busiest individual upload behind the retro guide.

Elsewhere, Matty offers a Windows shortcut for a frozen screen, uses an Arduino microcontroller to make Chrome's Dino jump automatically when cactuses approach, and finishes the week with "VLC trick I guarantee you didn't know", a guide to playing TV streams in the media player.

Daily channel views are now more than double their usual level, though the subscriber count was unchanged over the week. Nearby-sized tech channels have had varied weeks: Switch and Click added subscribers, while Techmoan's count held steady. For Matty, the distinctive detail is that a channel built around useful computer discoveries has found its biggest new audience in an old-fashioned TV guide.

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What viewers say

Cant wait to scroll through it for an hour not finding anything to watch, just like i did in the 90s!!
@dasboom7133See it on YouTube
Funny how we always hate present day commercials, but love watching commercials from the past decades
@Bet021-r2wSee it on YouTube
I used to fall asleep to the tv guide and I was so into watching when the current show block would move over to the left and disappear
@skuddingomcwinters6119See it on YouTube

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BOB VILA!!! This Old House!!! I miss that and The New Yankee Workshop!!!
@carissamessina1908See it on YouTube
Who knew 30 years later we would actively watch commercials lol
@jeanettehamilton7588See it on YouTube
I just pulled it up.
As a first year GenX, this is much cool.
@thecollective1584See it on YouTube
the lighting for commercials back then looked so much better
@Qwerky_QwertySee it on YouTube
Wait… can this be done on other TV sticks or only Roku?
@kyle2546See it on YouTube
Sold me at watching the old commercials
@Extended_warranty_expiredSee it on YouTube
That was Bob Vila sir.
@youllnevrknow101See it on YouTube