Do people channel surf anymore? My earliest channel surfing memories are of turning the UHF knobs as it streams through fuzzy static channels and rabbit earring until something kind of shows up and wow, it's usually something cool from hundreds of miles away! Then came the TV's with the first digital keypad and I'd be busy pressing 1-4, 1-5, 1-6, all the way up to 8-2, before it would refuse the entry, 'cause back then, TV manufacturers didn't think anyone would care to watch more than 82 possible channels. The remote control legitimized channel surfing. I remember the days when we'd press the same button over and over until some viral video like segment would show up for less than a minute and disappear to be surfed again. A good TV was one that changed channels the fastest, so satellite access was a losing proposition. Some remotes even had preprogrammed favorite channels button, so surfing became really convenient. People were concerned about couch potatoes back then, but I suppose that hasn't changed. Surfing took a backseat when TV listings started appearing on screen. Instead of watching clips of anything, I would be staring at a scrolling list, hoping that the channel I'm interested in would show up, but only to have to sit through useless information about channels I don't have, and then learn that the listings had moved onto to the next half-hour block. But hey that was common practice when the financial news shows were pulling the same shenanigans with the scrolling ticker tape. When that channel started having its own programming and then moved to Digital cable land, I didn't really miss that option. Tivo brought a decent revival of surfing. With hundreds of channels as opposed to tens, and the convenience of having a built-in video recorder and player, it was cool to watch two channels on the same television. But it also suffered from half of the shows being Unavailable unless I subscribed to triple digit premium services that would burn my budget faster than gas prices. One would think broadband would mean the end of the art of channel surfing. But while it becomes convenient to watch exactly what I want to see, I find that people are still wanting to watch whatever random crap is out there without any interest in the title, and only for the few seconds before moving on to something else.. I suppose if I wanted to relive old school channel surfing, I can just tune into local radio and bounce between my presets and scanning all the available stations that are within reach. It might mean having to listen to the same old sponsors to hock their donate a car program, weight loss pills, biased political ads, car insurance that doesn't mean jack if you're accident prone, or ads for television shows I can't watch while driving. But it does give a sample of programming that doesn't seem to be happening anymore on regular TV. Question: What are your favorite channel surfing memories? And do you still regularly channel surf?