I was born in 1979 and grew up without cable until I moved out at age 21. I had the choice of 8 Boston channels: 2, 4, 5, 7, 25, 38, 44, and 56. DVR was setting the VCR timer and channel.
I'm only 36 but it amazes me where TV has come these days. Now cable is starting to seem outdated to me.
What is outdated to me are the large channel packages where you only wanted 4 or 5 on top of the local stuff. The lack of options. If my parents knew how to stream with smart TV's and what not, we'd cut the cable at the lake.