My80sTV, the improbable stock of over 150,000 TV clips from the ‘70s through aughts has recently introduced a whole new decade, the ‘60s, with over 21,500 clips on over 19,000 channels. Weird era! Let’s poke round…

Like My70sTV, My80sTV, My90sTV, and My2000sTV earlier than it, My60sTV is a web site with a TV body, a channel knob, quantity, and a coloration tuner. Boom. (It’s fairly clear, however here’s a guide to working every TV set.) You can surf a decade of Walter Kronkite and confusingly superb crap: trippy cartoons, Fred Astaire introducing a household of ribbon dancers, the curious concept of a household sending kids on a airplane alone, Beverly Hillbillies swinging from a chandelier, the “American Gothic” couple singing about…cornflakes. All in all, the period has over 21,500 clips.

If you are feeling like blowing off an hour or two, you’ll discover an interesting considerably logic-less overview of TV’s evolution. On the ‘70s Jetsons-esque set, Dolly Parton sings “Jolene” live, and Ford pardons Nixon. In the ‘80s, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles blend together with a balls-to-the-wall snowmobile ad and a Nightmare on Elm Street trailer. The ‘90s usher in Chris Rock doing a Flavor Flav impression on SNL, A Tribe Called Quest, and a 7-Up ad. The aughts bring the golden Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig cast of “SNL” and, holy hell, Lost.

You’ll by no means run out of content material, however you possibly can’t search it both, which makes it a mind balm in a time when poisonous algorithmically chosen waste has pushed everybody bananas and eroded a normal consensus that the earth is spherical.

Engineer Joey Cato instructed Gizmodo through e mail that he’d began with My80sTV out of nostalgia for the tv of his childhood. The clips are crowdsourced from YouTube movies, which Cato says he independently vets, titles, and dates weekly, in order that info seems in a bar beneath the display screen. Cato hopes so as to add the ‘50s, at which level, the mission shall be full.

Relive the droning of incessant dramatic voiceovers, crazed ballads for doll commercials, and canned laughter. A whole lot of crap, however inside cause. Maybe Colombo comes on. Satisfying to activate, monotonous sufficient to close off and transfer on.