Oh wow, The Verge made a 70-minute video on how The Clapper became a viral sensation. When I was a kid, we didn’t have a Clapper, no one I knew had one, and I couldn’t understand why every single household didn’t have one of these magical devices.
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It was a great episode and indicative of the show as a whole. Highly recommend all of the Version History backlog of episodes.
We had a clapper and then an Intella Voice 2000. This was around 2000. You would attach a light to the plug, then yell Light Off or Lights On! And it worked. Then you would cough or sneeze at night and the lights would go on. It was funny a few times, and then we got rid of it. Now I tell Alexa what station to play and shehas about a 90% accuracy rate. Progress.
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