re: How did we all know to fix NES cartridges as kids in the 80s/90s?

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I'm from a small town in Mississippi. I knew 10 kids in my neighborhood growing up. There was no word of mouth from the outside world.

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We’re all ten kids your cousins?

It just takes one of those ten to hear about it from one of their friends. Who could have learned it from one of their friends.

Or by visiting family on a holiday.

You didn’t have the internet and TV wasn’t as prolific. So you talked a lot more about things you heard. And in cases like this when you found it solved a real problem you were more likely to pass it on.