MTV premiered August 1, 1981 - I missed the anniversary by 1 day - and you can now watch the first two hours ever broadcast on that channel, on youtube.
1981 is before my time and this is not my kind of music but it's still a quaint and interesting artifact, interesting enough for me to bother watching it.
A lot of people complain how MTV doesn't show music anymore - I was one of them. But I've finally reached the acceptance stage of grief and don't really care. I've reached the even more depressing conclusion that an MTV that showed music videos could never succeed today - everything is on-demand on the internet and no one has the patience to sit through any song that they don't like. In some ways this is progress, in some ways we're breaking down.
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