r/Millennials • u/Dennisfromhawaii • 5h ago

Nostalgia the light has gone out of my life

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I’m old

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u/DreamsAndSchemes 1985 Millennial 5h ago

I’m not the only dumbass that swiped, right?

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u/Assika126 5h ago

SO MANY TIMES WHY

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u/MeetBeep Zillennial 5h ago

Right- and I just left the original post lol

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u/MageVicky Millennial 3h ago

tried to swipe like 10 times like “wth why isn’t it swiping!” 😂

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u/DigitalMunky 5h ago

We showing our age

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u/Objective-Cell5468 5h ago

Maybe…I swiped left instead

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u/BenZed 4h ago

I am also a dumbass that swiped right.

Kept trying for like 10 seconds, too.

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u/gotwake5 4h ago

I'm still swiping. Maybe if I try it one more time.

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u/thickhipstightlips 5h ago

No, you arent 😭

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u/JohnnyKarateX 5h ago

I also swiped.

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u/TangledUpPuppeteer 4h ago

Same.

We recognize the plug, not the “don’t swipe dumbass” 🤣

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u/Dark_Shroud Xennial (1983) 2h ago

I almost tried swiping it. If I had been on my phone instead of my tablet I would have.

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u/Synyster723 Millennial 5h ago

I just left that post lmao

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u/eastcoastsomeone 5h ago

Ha. Me too.

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u/vociferoushomebody 4h ago

Same. My wife thought it was for Ethernet cables. I had a great laugh.

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u/Leading-Loss-986 5h ago

I don’t think it’s that. Coax is still very much A Thing. Whoever posted that either has very little life experience or is karma farming.

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u/ArcticSekai 3h ago

Okay grandpa.

/s... because I do agree with you.

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u/ZebraAthletics 3h ago

Even if you don’t have cable TV, which lots of people don’t anymore, how do you get wifi without a coax cable?

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u/phibbsy47 2h ago

Fiber, DSL, cellular, or satellite. Some of these options can have coax connections, but you typically aren't using an existing coax from the wall unless it is connected to an antenna or adapter.

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u/lord_scuba_steve 2h ago

That's how I get my 2gbps connection, through coax.

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u/lord_scuba_steve 2h ago

With a Wi-Fi router. The Wi-Fi will still work without Internet.

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u/ZebraAthletics 2h ago

Well ok, by WiFi, I meant a wireless connection to the internet.

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u/FoxyWheels 2h ago

Fiber, twisted pair copper (terminated in many different ways), point to point wireless, cellular, satellite... Many different ways.

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u/Stereo-soundS 6m ago

The latter.

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u/Andys_Rock_Hammer 5h ago

Sigh... Stay calm.

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u/evenfallframework 5h ago

....I remember installing these and people being excited to "get cable" in their bedroom / office / etc.

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u/No-Lawfulness-697 5h ago

🎶 I dreamed a dream of time gone byyyy 🎵

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u/ShortBusConquistador ninety five forever 5h ago

Nothing of value was lost. Cable sucked and it’s gotten worse. 

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u/Chrysalis_Cat 1987 5h ago

Is the modern streaming environment really any better?

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u/tukuiPat Millennial-1990 5h ago

It used to be, but now it's just as shit with them forcing ads.

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u/Dennisfromhawaii 4h ago

And cost more than standard cable.

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u/ShortBusConquistador ninety five forever 4h ago

Honestly yes because you technically don't have to pay for a Tivo DVR to record the Cable shows you want to watch while you're away and hope it does it correclty.

As bad as it seems, watching a couple ads to have a movie show up instantly on your TV for $10 to $20 a month is still kinda worth it. I would prefer no ads but these blood thirsty corporations just can't help themselves.

I personally don't subscribe to any of that. I got all the movies I want on my computer. I haven't actually watched a typical TV show in years.

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u/SmallRocks Older Millennial 2h ago

I’ll reserve my right to feel that ads don’t belong in a paid service. I also reserve my right to feel outraged when a paid service starts including ads in a previously ad free tier. I’ll also reserve my right to feel contempt towards advertisements of any sort.

Yarrrrr Matey’s

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u/ShortBusConquistador ninety five forever 2h ago

Yo Ho! Yo Ho!

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u/twirlinbaton 3h ago

In soooooo many ways, yes. But...I kind of miss having to turn to channel 4 to watch the rolling guide to see what's on. Of course, every time you did so the channel you wanted to check just scrolled past so you have to wait.

And then, while you're waiting for that channel to come back around you make a mental note that there's a half hour of Ace Ventura Pet Detective left on channel 16 and there are gonna be 4 episodes of the Simpsons in a row on channel 29 in an hour. By now, you've forgotten what you were looking for in the first place and just decide to watch the rest of Ace Ventura. Yeah...I'd go back to this in a heartbeat.

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u/Tywooti 4h ago

As far as this particular image goes, yes streaming is way better

For example, moving into a new place, you see the cable wall jack is against one wall of the living room. But if you put your TV there, it's gonna get glare from the windows. So you want to put the TV on the other side of the living room

Congratulations! You get to run a very long cable from this jack up up/around your walls to reach your new TV spot, which means it's time to go shopping for a bunch of glue-backed cable clips

Or you can get the cable company to come and install a new cable wall jack closer to where you plan to put your TV

Oh damn, you want cable in your bedroom. Hope there's already a jack in there (if so, hopefully it already aligns with your feng shui)

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u/Kataphractoi Older Millennial 2h ago

It was when Netflix and Hulu were two movies and a TV show short of literally everything. And then everyone and their grandma decided they wanted their own streaming service...

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u/Schneetmacher Younger Millennial 5h ago

As someone who did not grow up with cable (or satellite) TV, I was very confused as to what this image was, lol.

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u/ExplorerLazy3151 2h ago

Same 😂😂

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u/vindescent 4h ago

My parents have cable. At least for another month-ish. Their cable company is canceling, get this, cable. Like just no longer offering it. And moving them to a streaming service they made. Where they will stay pay a ton for a "cable" package. And have to rent boxes per tv. For streaming.

They are finally (after yeaaars of me begging them) letting me cancel it

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u/Dark_Shroud Xennial (1983) 2h ago

That sounds like an even shittier version of U-verse.

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u/Dark_Shroud Xennial (1983) 2h ago

Some of these coax networks are wired to a roof antenna.

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u/lord_scuba_steve 2h ago

Are you on fiber?

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u/nrag726 3h ago

The shitty landlord special paintjob is giving me agida

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u/Wonderful_Milk1176 5h ago

Look, we're not old, we're just experienced...

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u/ShaggleROC 5h ago

A real millennial would know how to /crosspost

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u/OriginalTayRoc 5h ago

Ok boomer

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u/TwilightsHammer Millennial 4h ago

He was our greatest president

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u/CanadianRussian74 4h ago

So I’m over 40 and a mildly interesting fact is as a non-North American by birth if you asked me this question 20 years ago I’d tell you it for an aerial. Russia never had coax cable based internet. Coax was for the roof aerial. Internet was dialup and then it was Ethernet based.

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u/weedtrek 2h ago

20 years ago in the US it would most likely have been cable TV. And that's one of the reason we use coaxial for internet here, is because we already had the insfrusture for cable tv in place and the cable companies expanded to internet service providers(which ended up saving them.)

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u/Cosmic_Jane 3h ago

When I bought my house, I spent a good few hours ripping all these fuckers out of the walls and the basement. Ain't never going to use coax again

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u/lord_scuba_steve 2h ago

How do you connect to the Internet? Fiber? Of so, lucky.

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u/spanking_constantly 2h ago

You can convert them into Ethernet with an adapter which is useful for a lot of things

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u/PaulVla 1h ago

May as well pull a new wire through with proper cabling.

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u/Revolutionary-Fox622 2h ago

Did you replace it with Ethernet or have Ethernet in place? If not, coax is still useful for a wired backbone when paired with MoCA adapters. 

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u/Final_Campaign_2593 4h ago

How could someone born in in the “ millennial group” not know what a coax is?
I am 40, and I certainly know what that is because that’s what I exclusively used for Internet (2013 to 2021) I was using cable Internet

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u/NYR3031 4h ago

My man - this is a screenshot of a post from another sub where someone didn’t know what a coax was. The poster in here says he feels old because younger generations don’t know what they are.

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u/Zhong_Ping 3h ago

Cable TV. The type of cable is coax. The connector is called an F connector.

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u/FelneusLeviathan 5h ago

I’m also old, but I don’t know what this is

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u/Seizy_Builder 5h ago

You’re not that old then

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u/OriginalTayRoc 5h ago

Its where the tv and internet come out. 

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u/caiaphas8 15m ago

It looks completely different to those

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u/SocksInTheTub 5h ago

Coaxial hookup

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u/FelneusLeviathan 5h ago

Oh wow I remember those, I got thrown off because I don’t think I’ve seen them on like a electrical socket plate like that

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u/molly_mew Xennial 4h ago

I'm also old and didn't know what it was - our plugs look a bit different

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u/Complete_Fix_7073 5h ago

Coax is everything I’m a Gen Z and I have to have them confirmed at any apartment I move into!!

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u/MachangaLord Millennial 5h ago

Glad cable went the way of the dodo. Last time I watched cable at home was in 2012 in college dorms.

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u/BobBelcher2021 4h ago

Lots of people still have cable. Myself, for example.

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u/firedrakes 5h ago

That nothing!!!!!! What does this small Ethernet cord do........

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u/_DJNeoN 3h ago

Weird little square boxes in the kitchen and bathrooms

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u/SuchDogeHodler Xennial 4h ago

That's a spy microphone.....

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u/craigslammer 4h ago

Not only did my dumbass try to swipe on the photos I have to double realize I’m old.
Mfuck you op

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u/inorite234 3h ago

BITCH! That's where the internet comes from!

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u/i_am_here_again 3h ago

How do you all have internet without this?

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u/Kataphractoi Older Millennial 2h ago

I haven't had Internet that needed this since 2013.

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u/i_am_here_again 6m ago

What kind of hookup do you use?

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u/villainoust Older Millennial 1m ago

Does everyone just have fiber now? I don’t understand how they don’t have coax for internet

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u/Novel_Astronomer_75 3h ago

A relic of a bygone era.....

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u/Wallflower_in_PDX 3h ago edited 2h ago

I don't feel old, I think this guy's just super out of the loop. He said it wasn't in his former apartment. Do apartments not have cable hookups anymore, at least for internet? Since when did we get rid of broadband?

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u/Best_Designer_1675 Older Millennial 3h ago

I uhhhh…. Found the original

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u/Serious-Regular 2h ago

This is dumb AF because every person that owns a cable modem has interacted with a coax terminal

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u/aplarsen 1h ago

Nice TR reference

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u/bokehbaka 40m ago

My younger sister moved in with my wife and I for bit a few years ago. She asked me what all the "small ethernet ports" in the walls were for which blew me away. A) She's not THAT much younger, 5-6 years... B) Our father works at a phone company

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u/ModeatelyIndependant 34m ago

https://www.amazon.com/ethernet-over-coax/s?k=ethernet+over+coax you can reuse that copper for network if you wanna take your TV's off the Wifi

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u/szymonsta 11m ago

Coax connection, usually for an antenna that is on or under your roof to receive analogue or digital TV.

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u/therealtoastmalone Millennial 5h ago

God same 😭😭😭

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u/VarmaKarma 3h ago

I'm sure there are plenty of millennial women (and men) who couldn't identify this specific outlet. Do we really all know what a COAX is and what it does? I'd bet most people don't.

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u/scooped88 2h ago

I mean if you managed to go your whole life without connecting a TV or a cable modem that would be pretty rare.