In 90s Australia you were either a Cheez TV kid or an Agro’s Cartoon Connection kid. I was an Agro kid. RIP Jamie Dunn
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In 90s Australia you were either a Cheez TV kid or an Agro’s Cartoon Connection kid. I was an Agro kid. RIP Jamie Dunn
A digital drawing of a fellow in a yellow shirt with a Wendy’s Agro ice cream for a head (complete with various lollies to make up his face), holding a waffle cone with actual Agro for its contents.
Agro, with Agro.
(completed ca. February 2021, reposted March 2026 because I am a heartbroken 90s kid.)
A worthwhile watch 👇
Handy public service (and for us Pres geeks, a reminder of how some TV networks used to really go to town on their idents) 🤓
Here’s how we digitise our VHS tapes at VHS Revue (Warning: Tedious) #vhs
You’ll keep coming over. Keep coming over.
Something very familiar about all this…
Cropping the top and bottom old TV shows so they fill a widescreen display should be punishable by death.
Straya
From the latest episode of Mad As Hell: ‘Angus Taylor’s Brain’ #libspill #auspol
This ad for Force Electronics was out of date even back then…
Get This S*** Off The Air! - UDL premixed vodka, 2000
Yeah I think he is
A still from an ad for Adelaide-based ‘Dreamland’ bedding store from the early 2000s
A TikTok comment: Anyone know who the actor is from this ad cause he wanted to date my grandma but she was married and now she's divorced and I'm trying to find him HELPPPP
Just got this comment on TikTok. Can anybody loop in the Dreamland guy?
Yeah!
Buying stuff online in the year 2000
Come for the fake ads. Stay for the tediousness.
Does CC stand for crack cocaine in this instance because you'd have to be on something to create this fever dream of an ad!
Hyundai self-selling car, 2000
Channel 10 promo for ‘Switching Lives’ and ‘Unreal TV’ broadcast in the wrong aspect ratio, February 2000
A worthy cause
Welcome to VHS Revue
This is good fun. Choose your ABC (Australia) clock, tweak the interference, ghosting etc.
You can even choose when to have the pips.
@dirtyfeed.org @matt.cymru @aldupres.bsky.social
mubd.net.au/tv-history/a...
David M. Green behind the counter at Video Land, Melbourne Immigration Museum
Racks of VHS tapes at Video Land, Melbourne Immigration Museum
Retro style custom carpeting at Video Land, Melbourne Immigration Museum
David M. Green amongst racks of VHS tapes at Video Land, Melbourne Immigration Museum
Finally got a chance to see Callum Preston’s ‘Video Land’ exhibition at Melbourne’s Immigration Museum. Fantastic. I actually found it really hard to leave. It’s still open for a couple more weeks so check it out.
The weirdness of CC’s, 1986
If you like solid gold satire, give On The Talking a follow
Jobs in the ‘80s
1986 ad for Dewar’s Scotch Whisky. I don’t get it.
digitizing someomes home movies, and halfway through the E-180 VHS tape, we now have some TV recordings hiding at the back half of the tape, just as @davidmgreen.bsky.social explained
A hardcover book sitting on a wooden tabletop. It’s the ca.1984 Sanitarium cookbook “Australian & New Zealand Vegetarian Cooking For Better Health.” A wide range of fruits, vegetables, nuts and grains are on the cover.
Time to have some Sanitarium™️ Fun In The Kitchen @vhsrevue.bsky.social
