Wow. Yes, I remember this well. I was working on a project at this point and had to secure multiple buildings, computer systems and the like because (and we all knew it was bulls**t) "all the computers are going to explode, planes will drop out of the sky" blah blah blah. Unreal.
Yeah, amateurs... I had my own TV when I was in High School... and it was black and white and got better reception than my dad's fancy color tv, and that was on the UHF channels!