{"id":9311,"date":"2023-08-19T09:19:15","date_gmt":"2023-08-19T16:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=9311"},"modified":"2023-08-13T09:31:01","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T16:31:01","slug":"why-remotes-were-called-clickers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=9311","title":{"rendered":"Why Remotes were called clickers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/duet-cdn.vox-cdn.com\/thumbor\/0x0%3A2550x1700\/828x828\/filters%3Afocal%281275x850%3A1276x851%29%3Aformat%28webp%29\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_asset\/file\/24810945\/236732_BOTM_Zenith_Space_TV_remote_AKrales_0188.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Pass me the clicker&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My grandfather used to say that when he wanted us to pass him the remote. I never understood why he called it a &#8216;clicker&#8217;. They didn&#8217;t click. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I later found out that they used too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s a great <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/23810061\/zenith-space-command-remote-control-button-of-the-month\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/23810061\/zenith-space-command-remote-control-button-of-the-month\">article on the Zenith Space Command<\/a> &#8211; a remote that didn&#8217;t need batteries, infrared, nor even line of sight to the TV. Instead, it worked on sound.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Pass me the clicker&#8221; My grandfather used to say that when he wanted us to pass him the remote. I never understood why he called it a &#8216;clicker&#8217;. They didn&#8217;t click. But I later found out that they used too. Here&#8217;s a great article on the Zenith Space Command &#8211; a remote that didn&#8217;t need batteries, infrared, nor even line of sight to the TV. Instead, it worked on sound.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool","category-technical"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-2qb","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9312,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9311\/revisions\/9312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}