# Anyone remember the early days of television?

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> [@JKellyMap](#):
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> Interesting. I thought [Roald Dahl](http://roalddahl.wikia.com/wiki/Mike_Teavee) made up this kind of character in 1964, but he was almost surely inspired by the one you just mentioned.

[http://www.comics.org/issue/132156/](http://www.comics.org/issue/132156/)

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