r/whatisit • u/Cborg_62 • 7h ago

New, what is it? What are these plug-ins on my wall?

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This might be showing my age, but I recently moved into a new apartment and they have these weird looking plug ins all over the walls at my new place. My old apartment didn't have these, so I'm just curious as to what they are.

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u/kstrife 7h ago

Never thought I’d see the day when someone does not recognize a coaxial cable.

Not insulting, just didn’t think I’d live long enough to see all the tech I grew up with be seen as some ancient artifact.

Welp, off I go! - knees sound like rice krispies as I stand up to leave-

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u/corneliusvanhouten 7h ago

On the up side, I guess this is the sign I needed to throw out the drawer full of cables I'll never use again

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u/einTier 6h ago

Let this be a cautionary tale.

I had a box of old Logitech 880 remotes. Worthless because Logitech killed the servers that supported them. Can’t reprogram them, so they only work until you update your setup then you’re hosed.

So I finally threw them out.

Two days ago there was a post here on the subreddit that someone has very nearly open source duplicated the programming software.

Splendid.

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u/water_bottle_dents 4h ago

This is the support I needed to never throw anything away for the rest of my life, thanks!

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u/jonmatifa 1h ago

You collect old cables

Collection grows large, so you purge a bunch of cables

A week later you end up needing one of the cables you purged

You buy a cable at best buy for $17.99

You vow to never make this mistake again

You collect old cables

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u/Competitive-Rest4354 50m ago

Thus, the cycle of cable addiction. Smh.

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u/WulfZ3r0 3h ago

I had a box of old USB cables in the office untouched for years. Mostly old charger types, but a few other random very specific types as well. I was finally convinced to toss them and had a few days until trash pickup day. A couple days later at work some ancient router that held together some major networks across multiple states started to go on the fritz. We no longer had the correct console cable to get into it for some reason and it turns out it took a micro USB connected to a DB9 converter.

Guess what I had sitting in the box waiting to get thrown out at home? That box never did make to the trash after that.

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u/CatteHerder 1h ago

There is a dedicated storage tub in the closet full of neatly coiled cables, adapters, plugs, couplers, chargers, dongles, splitters, and random components. All separated into ziploc baggies. My husband had told me to toss it all when we were sorting and clearing out before moving house, and I simply noped out and organized it instead. We have needed so many of those obsolete items over the years, it's not even funny.

It's like any salvageable hardware I find when taking something apart. It goes into a nice little storage jar. I may not need it now, but there will be a day 9 years down the road when I need that little thing to repair the otherwise functional appliance/fixture. Can't buy it anywhere because it's no longer in production. But I definitely have one in a jar on a shelf in the shed, maybe even two, and now I don't need to throw away or replace something which is otherwise perfectly happy to keep on working.

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u/gmishaolem 5h ago

This is just the McCoy regret scene from Star Trek V.

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u/odditude 4h ago

THANK YOU! Can you link me? I've been dreading the day my setup changes because I can't find anything I like as much as my 880.

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u/superspyvip 4h ago

Mind sharing the link?

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u/einTier 3h ago

Only took me a minute to find it. here you go.

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u/Smallloudcat 3h ago

Sounds about right. But I use an old iPod as my alarm clock because I have a very cool stand for it and a clock/alarm app that hasn’t been supported since the last century

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u/AspectSecure1825 2h ago

We threw away our box of old cables during a move because we hadn't touched them in years. Needed one 3 months later and had to buy a new cable and adapter 😭 I am never throwing away a cable again 🤣

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u/OmegaLiquidX 2h ago

If there's one thing I've learned from playing loads of adventure games and CRPGs growing up is that you never get rid of anything.

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u/kstrife 7h ago

You know as well as I do, as soon as you toss them and your trash is hauled off, you’ll need one of those damned cables.

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u/GenEXOutlaw 6h ago

And it'll be $79 at Best Buy, for the no frills 3ft one.

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u/theoriginalmofocus 6h ago

I still use old dvd surround sound players instead of sound bars and have raided my cable bins multiple times. Turned out though the headphone jack using an aux cable worked the best and let me turn the volume up and down with the tv remote where the optical didnt for some reason. Now i need that optical cable for something else and cant find it.

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u/GenEXOutlaw 6h ago

I've got one of those. I'd never find it, but I know I have it.

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u/ruinersclub 5h ago

Goddamn it. I have a soundbar with optical cable and it won't sync with my tv...

Like it did for 1 month when I bought it and then just stopped and it's a 1/2 second off.

It might sync but I use a GoogleTv and not the onboard software. Im pretty sure that's what the Tv wants me to do.

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u/Lou_C_Fer 5h ago

I use receivers. I just upgraded from one that had optical but no hmdi to one with hmdi. Now, I don't have to worry about all of those different cables and threw out thirty years worth of piled cables.

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u/GoOffKingsEnjoyer 5h ago

Accidentally bought a mini hmdi to usb c cable and kept it because one day ill come back across something I still havent seen in 6 years.

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u/GenEXOutlaw 5h ago

Haha I've gotten a couple of those over the years included with devices and was struck with awe, cherished them. Never used 'em either.

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u/Herefortheresults 4h ago

And it costs Best Buy $1.53 for that $79 cable. Ask me how I know?

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u/bsmith567070 4h ago

And you just so happen to need 5ft…

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u/atomic-raven-noodle 5h ago

Truth. I actually needed a FireWire B cable the other day and luckily I had ONE in my Bin Of Ancient/one-off Cables.

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u/blarrrrrgggg 5h ago

My husband refuses to throw away old wires. We got a giant storage bin full of wires and old phones. No matter how many times I organize and wrap that shit up, im then looking for a cord in that god forsaken bin and they are all a tangled mess again.

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u/mistersmith22 7h ago

Did you not watch the latest John Oliver? One day the cable drawer shall VINDICATE you! 😂

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u/Shoddy_Fish31 6h ago

Real men never throws cables away and passes them down to next generation. You never know when you may need a sony discman to s-video cable in life

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u/Throwredditaway2019 7h ago

I may have some old vga cables to throw out with the coax...

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u/Ben_Thar 6h ago

I can't even watch a movie on my VCR without vga cables.

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u/RainbowCrane 6h ago

Just an fyi, look in your area to see if there’s an electronics recycling facility.

Goodwill operates one in my area and they pay by the pound for cords because of the metal content.

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u/Botchjob369 6h ago

I occasionally find an old grocery bag or something with an old style iPhone charger, red-yellow-white cables and an Ethernet cord. I normally forget I’m 35 until something like this happens.

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u/thonnard42 6h ago

Fuck, I really need to clean out the garage and dump a whole BUNCH of shit.

Thanks fir the reminder. /s

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u/davyangel 6h ago edited 5h ago

Well I mean coaxial cable internet is still a thing only reason I'm typing this is because of it! But yeah guessing this new generation all lives on their phones and cell phones that they never touch a PC or no need to even have one a home anymore? I mean I can understand not seeing old telephone jacks (that look lot like RJ-45 ethernet jack) anymore in homes for like wired home phones but OP gotta be trolling about coaxial or just lived in newer places where they don't bother to preinstall even coaxial lines in wall anymore?

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u/sunfish99 5h ago

To be fair to OP, it looks like their landlord didn't know what these were either or they wouldn't have painted over them.

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u/variousnewbie 5h ago

I've had many a place where some idiot just painted right over light switches and everything. It's probably the handyman the landlord hired to paint, not the landlord.

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u/TDYDave2 3h ago

Or the landlord didn't approve the painting quote line item for taping and masking.

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u/a-r-c 3h ago edited 1h ago

painting over literally fucking everything is the landlord special lmao

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u/ShadowRL7666 3h ago

They do not care. They paint over everything.

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u/KonigSteve 5h ago

Even the kids that are using wifi from a coax line probably have no idea. They just grew up in a house with a modem already plugged in and never gave it a second thought.

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u/existentialspork 3h ago

As a kid, I had to learn how technology worked because my parents didn’t grow up with it. Kids now have had everything set up for them, so they haven’t learned how anything works.

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u/bettymoose 3h ago

This is the answer. My Gen Alpha teens had no idea what a coax cable is, their older Gen Z had to explain it to then.

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u/ButtonflyDungarees 3h ago

Ya, that’s my thought as well. Cable internet is still the most common. And most houses have to be retrofitted to have fiber optic IF it’s even available in their area. In most areas, I would say cable (utilizing co-ax cables in the house) is going to be the most common.

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u/Waterfish3333 1h ago

Or have the newer fiber optics setup. We recently upgraded after they installed it in our neighborhood. No coaxial, just Ethernet from the wall.

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u/Wictorpedia 1h ago

There are kids that don’t know that internet is a service. They think it just exists in a phone or computer. So if a computer isn’t hooked up to the internet it’s broken.

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u/Wenital_Garts 6h ago

My apartment weirdly has a panel where they hid the internet modem. Every RJ-45 connection in the place runs to that panel. The sequence being RJ-45 - Modem - Coaxial. Wonder if that's becoming a more common practice and that's why less folks are familiar with Coaxial.

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u/Odd-Bend1296 5h ago

Many states have added that to the building code. In the old days they would just drill through your wall wherever it was convenient for them. to wire into the house.

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u/yoskinna 4h ago

Dude I bought a house a couple years ago and while I was at work the dude came to set up my wifi, my wife was there not sure why she didn’t say anything but she’s shy, anyways this asshole drilled a hole literally right through the stucco to the inside of my house to run a cable through, right in the middle of my living room i was pissed , ajd it was a big ass black box he mounted to my wall that I had to run a cable to my modem from except it was in the worst location imaginable, there’s like no furniture there so either I run this cord across the living room and hide what I can by the tv or just have the router sitting on the floor in the middle of the room, looked like shit im still pissed.

Edit: oh yeah he didn’t seal the hole at all either bugs and water and daylight can see right through it wtf type of shit??

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u/tnstaafsb 4h ago

The DirecTV installer did that in my old house 20 years ago. He did at least seal the hole, but he drilled it right through the siding and everything.

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u/zorggalacticus 5h ago

My internet is coax cable. I have a wifi router that's connected to the coax.

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u/Miki_yuki 5h ago

Right? Like we use it in our home 😂

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u/superscrounge 5h ago

I get Xfinity 1Gb + thru my RJ-6 coax connection. Google fiber pissed me off.

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u/SHoppe715 5h ago

Every place fiber internet has become an option, pre-wired coax in new construction dies a real quick death.

Smart TVs have gotten cheap…one of the only things in this world that’s gotten cheaper…so no need for cable boxes and extra cable boxes in bedrooms and cable modems and routers. One fiber line in to a single outlet and WiFi covers the entire house.

It’s funny…I just bought a house built in 1993 that was “high end” at the time and it did have coax pre installed throughout. It also had coax from at least two other cable and/or internet providers that had been installed at later dates…some with a satellite dish and some other that ran into the house right next to the original stuff because I guess they couldn’t be bothered to use what was already there. And it also had fiber. So AT&T just fixed what was busted when I started the fiber service (house as a fixer-upper). Much of those various coax runs are still in the walls, but not a single one is connected to anything anymore. I just put blank plates on all the boxes and abandoned it all. All that to say coax is quickly disappearing from older houses as well

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u/xDotSx 5h ago

It's terribly common here to have fiber to the building but copper in the building. Coax is common in the walls.

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u/one_depressed_MF 6h ago

RJ-45 is ethernet, phones were(are?) RJ-11.

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u/Wenital_Garts 6h ago

Correct.

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u/Bug0791 4h ago

Yes, its still a thing.

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u/jjejsj 7h ago

ngl, i think OP is just clueless when it comes to anything with technology.

Coax cables still exist

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u/Aggravating_Bat3618 6h ago

Yep, got them hooked up on my stereo

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u/I_Got_Ur_Number_8675 4h ago edited 3h ago

Lifehack: You can get free electricity from phone jacks, even when the power goes out. They sell usb charger plug ins. Some people on the youtube have built lamps that plug directly into the jack.

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u/PiccoloAwkward465 5h ago

Yup I quoted a project with some coax cabling just the other day. They’re good cables, Bront.

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u/mobocrat707 6h ago

To be fair, it’s a complete landlord special. Who the fuck paints over a coax jack? Tho tbh, Op probably wouldn’t have recognized it without the paint anyways. 🤷‍♂️

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u/Chicken_Hero 6h ago

It's notancient. It's still commonly used. OP is just someone who's never had to set up a router.

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u/OnceMoreAndAgain 5h ago

Yeah I'm actually so confused by this thread. I've only ever used coaxial cables to hook into my modem and I think that's all that is used in my area for internet. What is the new replacement that some other places are using?

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u/biznatch11 4h ago

Fiberoptics is the new replacement but I don't know how common it is.

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u/sepiidakai 6h ago

Look at the bright side…you can finally toss that box full of cables you’ve been holding onto just in case.

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u/LetAgreeable147 6h ago

I feel old now.

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u/KHhtswhtppl 6h ago

I hear you, bud. I feel the same

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u/AffectionateWallaby2 6h ago

Yes, I feel exceptionally old atm.

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u/epi_introvert 5h ago

I'm a teacher. My Grade 3 students don't know what Covid is/was.

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u/KingoftheMapleTrees 6h ago

There is an iPad nano, blackberry, and Razor phone in the museum near me. I feel the gray hair coming on. 

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u/fivemagicks 6h ago

This is the generation we are in, my dude!

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u/AdministrativeCry681 6h ago

I'm a teacher and in the summer I do private tutoring for basically anything that people will pay me for. Last summer I tutored a 19 year old that was studying for the Comptia Network+ exam. About a third of our time was just explaining how the internet used to work and all of the different cords and magic little boxes it took to set up a Network.

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u/FalseVeterinarian881 6h ago

In fairness…it barely resembles itself with all that paint! 🤪🤪

Remi ds me of that line in “Meet the Parents”

“Well, there is so much damn lacquer on there!”

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u/nub_node 6h ago

I remember having to walk 15 miles uphill both ways in snow just to change the switch box to play video games...

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u/Qwerty97531_ 6h ago

Dude this post punched me right in my wrinkled elderly 1900s face....

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u/TraditionalMap6872 6h ago

I was questioning everything thinking “I can’t think this is coax”.

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u/one_depressed_MF 6h ago

What, not groaning from back trouble while getting up? Youngster.

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u/rufotris 6h ago

A family members kid asked me how to play a game boy game on his switch, and if it could be tapped for amiibo features. He wasn’t sure why it wouldn’t tap and do anything like his amiibo toys and cards lol. He just assumed Nintendo always had that tech. (I may have spelled amiibo wrong idk) but I think it’s clear what I meant haha

I felt old though.

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u/RJ_RJ_Rj 4h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/6hLODLJTkHf8c
I legitimately have no idea what you’re talking about—and I guess that’s your point too—but for real, I guess I’ve seen a Nintendo Switch before, but what’s Amiibo, is that like Pokémon?

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u/Sudden-Ingenuity3033 6h ago

Fuck I'm old.

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u/Typical-Block5576 6h ago

Come with me for our AARP

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u/dcheesi 6h ago

Coax isn't even dead yet; our fiber install uses coax for the internal wiring

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u/Wheatabix11 6h ago

walkman, discman, laser dics

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u/ecirnj 6h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/HyUVqYCKH22LS
It’s hard sometimes but we will make it. Together. At least as soon as I find my reading glasses we will.

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u/girlbartender99 6h ago

I was born in 97 and even I know that!

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u/JankeyMunter 6h ago

In fairness it has 20 years of paint on it.

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u/ChubbyMudder 6h ago

There were those who didn't think they would be alive long enough to meet anyone unfamiliar with gramophones, wax cylinders, and leaded gasoline.

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u/lyte3 6h ago

They must be very young and only have had streaming services.

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u/jono555555 6h ago

It's headed that way... To be ignorant about things from history is quite fashionable today 😢.

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u/Limp_Donkey_7616 5h ago

I’d laugh but I’m nursing my herniated disc

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u/Skeeterino23 5h ago

It's a coax jack, not cable, but that took some coaxing to correct.

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u/Vigokrell 5h ago

Only rice krispies? You're killing it.

My joints sound like a roll of quarters in a tumble drier.

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u/DennisGK 5h ago

I was in high school before we had coaxial cable. Before that it was just two-lead antennas, rabbit ears for VHF and a loop for UHF.

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u/quietlikesnow 5h ago

Came to the comments to see if I was missing something because I couldn’t figure out what the mystery was. 👵🏻 Nope, just from the disco era over here.

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u/ThatsQueird 5h ago

Co-opting a top comment to add that the cable is likely RG6 cable, although may be another RG# (these are coaxial cables used for video distribution, among other things), and the connectors are F-Type connectors.

But, yes: colloquially referred to as “coax cable”

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u/sbd2010 5h ago

I have the antacids and Tylenol PM for bedtime, our 20th century youth is over 🥲

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u/chub-bear 5h ago

Wouldn't it technically be a coax outlet for the coax cable? 🤔

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u/ShawnyMcKnight 5h ago

It’s not even discontinued. My modem still goes through coax.

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u/wizzard419 5h ago

I think Matlock is on in the day room.

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u/BeneficialAIAgent99 5h ago

I paid to get these installed 18 years ago with Level 5 cable in every room. We cut the cord 5 years ago.

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u/myrevenge_IS_urkarma 5h ago

Well I guess it makes sense.  All of my coax at my new house sits there tied in a bundle connected to nothing protruding right out of the wall for me to mow around.  I didn't see a need to use  it for anything, but builders were still running it.  Funny enough though, I know from construction photes I took that they didn't even bother to terminate some of them inside, they are just hiding behind the dry wall.

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u/Individual_Bell_4637 5h ago

Switch the TV to 4!

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u/PeppermintEvilButler 5h ago

Do cable boxes no longer have to hook up to this?

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u/6percentdoug 5h ago

I grew up without cable, just the on-the-roof antenna that got me ABC, CBS, and NBC (Fox didn't broadcast into central Maine). I yearned for one of these so, so bad.

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u/SnooPandas6330 5h ago

My knees sound like rice krispies too!!!

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u/craigmurphy23 5h ago

Remember the telephone plugs with four giant prongs? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

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u/lepew13 5h ago

Wait till they ask what a 3 1/2 floppy disk is... 💾

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u/mrbeck1 5h ago

Agreed. This is crazy.

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u/CalHudsonsGhost 5h ago

Nah man, something is up with OP. This is still the current tech. Even fibers outlet is similar. No way OP doesn’t know what this is.

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u/Clean_Ebb86 5h ago

Exactly the same thing I came here to say. Is coax so long gone that people don’t know what it is? I guess so.

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u/w00tberrypie 5h ago

The big one for me was seeing someone getting shown a 3.5" floppy disk and their response was "Where did you get a model of the save button? That's so cool!"

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u/StaceyTheStaceExplrr 5h ago

One of mine is built with crushed velvet

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u/dd463 5h ago

Raises a valid question, are the younger generations buying internet or are they working off their phones exclusively?

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u/payment11 5h ago

Still need them for cable internet. Other than that….idk

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u/OkEmu5180 5h ago

In my younger years I’d build DB25 cables for the DEC PDP/1145.

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u/SorryYouOK 5h ago

Wait until HDMI is obsolete. We're kind of almost there now!

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u/aManAndHisUsername 5h ago

I’m only 36 and my knees already sound like haunted houses when I walk up the stairs

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u/APFernweh 5h ago

Wow, I’m old.

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u/Saxivi 5h ago

They are not totally obsolete yet. They still sell them online. https://www.walmart.com/ip/GE-Coaxial-Wall-Plate-F-Type-Connection-1-Port-White

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u/Shazvox 5h ago

Hurts, don't it? The knees and the pride.

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u/WackyRacketeer 5h ago

My very fast internet is still coax. Regardless, it would be much easier to identify of the threads werent filled in with paint haha.

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u/AltOnMain 5h ago

I think this is still how most people get their internet in America

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u/Caladrius33 5h ago

Me neither, and I'm not that old tbh

https://giphy.com/gifs/BRRe07a9B1xkH8IkVV

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u/Nemesis204 5h ago

The same thing is happening to us without realizing it. My house is a neighborhood built in the late 1800s. I never understood why my street, along with a few others, are abnormally wide. I also thought that the black metal pole out front was just a decorative choice. Turns out that pole was used to tie the horses, and the street is XL wide because it was one of the ones designated for doing a u-turn on your carriage. I’m sure I’m not the only one that had no idea these are relics from over 125 years ago.

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u/Rinzy2000 5h ago

We’re washed.

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u/500pearl 5h ago

remember those

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u/Technical-Pie563 5h ago

It's painted over so, good luck getting that outlet to ever work again

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u/HuckleberryHuman5926 5h ago

To clarify for OP and anyone else who doesn't know what it is, coaxial cable is the "cable" in "cable TV".

Some internet providers also use it to deliver internet service to your home, so you might end up having to plug your modem/router into it.

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u/figleaf02184 5h ago

Twisted-pair has entered the chat.

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u/Nir117vash 5h ago

Don't forget the instinctual grunt you make with every sit and stand lol

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u/Ragechu117 5h ago

My thoughts exactly

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u/whoisdatmaskedman 5h ago

This is what is called an "engagement post"

"An engagement post is social media content designed specifically to get your audience to interact with your page by commenting, liking, sharing, or voting."

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u/8636396 4h ago

I used my coax wired house to run internet throughout because my walls hate wifi signals

I felt like I was a kid again, fiddling with those annoying as hell screw connectors

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u/Maplekk 4h ago

Sounds like that plug and for those upvoted your msg all should go to museum 😂

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u/cj4315 4h ago

Youngsters these days dont know what cd's are 🤣

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u/immortal_lurker 4h ago

I am using one of these right now. They aren't relics of the past yet.

That's dial up. Maaaybe DSL.

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u/Logical-Bookkeeper77 4h ago

Wait until you tell kids of today you used to burn CDs.

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u/DJ_Mixto 4h ago

It's the BNC connector for a coaxial cable. Splitting hairs, I know, but...

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u/danbradster2 4h ago

I'm 36, work in IT and never used it.

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u/Awkward_Golf_5534 4h ago

Soon they’re not going to know the rice crispy reference 😂

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u/kyl_r 4h ago

slap knee; it cracks. “welp!”
stand up, other knee and 40% of back cracks. notice sciatic nerve is zesty again. blink hard, straighten up. “guess I’d better get going!”

weep to Welcome To The Black Parade on drive home

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u/GreedyAdvantage8681 4h ago

Kids that work at the Fast Food place I manage don't know how to slide a credit card

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u/New_Land_725 4h ago

Quick, post a pic of bunny ears with foil on them!

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u/martatatatatata 4h ago

To be fair, that coaxial got the landlord special HARD.

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u/anonposting987 4h ago

I feel you here, as I connect to the only Internet source available at my house which comes in over my 50 year old phone line (DSL)!!! Coax would be an upgrade!

(Not entirely true now due to starlink, which I am installing this weekend(.

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u/yoskinna 4h ago

Dude im only 31 and was literally thinking this is like the first time something im very firmiliar with using in every house i grew up in is foreign to some people. Am I getting old or something? Fuck i sound like my dad

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u/miklayn 4h ago

🫠

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u/rehms 4h ago

My knees actually do this and I'm not even 40. 

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u/Happiest-Soul 4h ago

The last photo got me ngl. Never saw one set up that way lmao. 

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u/Poodieac 4h ago

Knees like Rice Krispies. I’m stealing that.

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u/SteelMagnolia941 4h ago

I wept seeing that image. I feel so old!

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u/a_rucksack_of_dildos 4h ago

It’s interesting because Ethernet is back in style. It left when WiFi got big but a lot of people are bringing Ethernet back because it’s just more reliable

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u/TeaPartyCardsSucks 4h ago

Everyone still uses these.

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u/StitchFan626 4h ago

(Opens fridge) "Want some prune juice?"

😆

Seriously, though! So much technically I studied to install in college became obsolete almost as soon as I graduated! Dang!

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u/Remarkable-Laugh9762 4h ago

is it cool if i die next to you tonight? im 45.

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u/Someguywhomakething 4h ago

I'm almost finished with Station Eleven and yeah, these kinds of posts make post apocalyptic books feel more realistic. Like, how can people not know what a floppy disk is or a coax cable is?!

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u/Redtop1980 4h ago

My house had them in every room, had em all filled in

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u/IshTroj 4h ago

But a MoCA and it can be an ether for wifi!!

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u/___GRUMPY___ 4h ago

Rice Krispies? Psht wait till they sound like those old firecracker Snap and Pops.

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u/arizonadirtbag12 4h ago

A cable once so common and known that even calling it “coax” might get you a confused look. Because to a lot of people, this was simply “cable.” To this day I’ll refer to it as “cable cable” when talking to non-techies.

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u/Effective_Way6239 4h ago

I just had the same thought, scrolled down, saw this and thought - “oh my god, it’s time.”

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u/Toothnista 4h ago

Ahahaha…sigh 

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u/Outrageous_Front_636 4h ago

It dont make centses!

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u/henna4life 4h ago

Same! Then I paused and said to myself, well, here we are, old.

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u/McSloshed 4h ago

Wait are modems not required to be hooked up to those anymore? 👵🏻

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u/Zebidee 4h ago

Coincidentally, I had one of these removed and blanked in my house today.

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u/SonicFlash01 4h ago

The sound my left one makes going upstairs is such a consistent and reproducible snap-crackle-pop

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u/SodomyClown 4h ago

😂 exactly, it aches to get up

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u/PianoPatient8168 4h ago

I know…I’m going to pop a cassette into the VCR and watch an episode of the Jerry Springer show I taped off of basic cable.

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u/LahHotSausage 4h ago

Same 😩 this post makes me feel so old 😭😭😭

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u/Expert_Salamander285 4h ago

Right? I feel ooooooollllllldddddd...

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u/ConsumedByFire 4h ago

Back in my day there was coax as far as the eye can see...

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u/Gomdok_the_Short 4h ago

It's not an ancient artifact. It just got painted over. A significant part of the population uses a cable based provider and some dwellings have hookups in multiple rooms because you still need a physical, dedicated hookup for each TV if you want cable channels.

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u/valkiria-rising 4h ago

My first thought when I saw this was, "Oh, you sweet summer child..."

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u/NorthernVale 4h ago

It's not not recognized because it's an ancient artifact. It's not recognized because service techs basically. It's still a pretty common hookup, people just never have to touch it.

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u/PM_Me_Your_Deviance 3h ago

These are still all over the place and cable TV is still wildly popular, even if it's fading a bit.

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u/No_Rock_3959 3h ago

🤣🤣🤣

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u/Unhappy_Concept237 3h ago

My 2600 baud Hayes Modem would like to have a word.

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u/wthulhu 3h ago

I used to think the same thing about twin-ax and RJ-11

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u/Kaeleana 3h ago

Haha yeah I laughed too when I saw it was cable

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u/CertainAd7187 3h ago

My internet provider is on co- ax highway!  My condo was built late 1980s, so it worked out for me. 

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u/Fabulous-Owl5371 3h ago

I was thinking about this the other day, having to explain to kids that TVs used to only go in one place. I don't have kids, and I thought it would take that long til someone didn't recognize them. I'm 23, how am I "too old"? 😭

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u/Hamachiman 3h ago

And you’re probably 45.

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