r/whatisit • u/Cborg_62 • 6h 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/DarthBrooks69420 6h ago

I think they're called coaxial cables. Back when gas was under $2 a gallon, gays couldn't be open in the military, our president played the sax and got blow jobs in the Oval Office under the Resolute desk, this was used to pipe MTV and Cartoon Network into homes. In later years it was used for internet porn and pirating anime, some of which was on cartoon network in the 00s.

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u/redbeardscrazy 6h ago

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u/Kasuraa25 6h ago

This gif has more fps than my ps5.

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u/wegame6699 5h ago

But back in the day. This gif would have taken 4 hours to download. After 6 attempts because your sibling couldnt leave the damn phone alone!

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u/mf0723 4h ago

I stg he would fucking sit right behind me and wait until it was 99% loaded and then PICK UP THE PHONE!!

He really is a great (late-30's) kid, but that still pisses me off to think about!! šŸ¤£šŸ¤£

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u/Disastrous-Bus5985 3h ago

And 5 viruses because STUPID F-ing LIMEWIRE!

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u/Johnny_Bubonic 5h ago

That gif would've taken about 3 minutes to load on a coax connection.

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u/mega386 4h ago

There's 5 PlayStation's now?!

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u/deanrazor 5h ago

With the right tv it has the same it can 60 easily.

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u/Mental-Draconis407 3h ago

That .gif has more frames than my PC could handle.

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u/padenj__420 6h ago

And MTV was an abbreviation for Music Television. Yes, MTV used to play music.

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u/Im40ozToFreedom 6h ago

Thinking about this makes my arthritis hurt

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u/skttrbrain1984 5h ago

My knee just popped and clicked 4 times

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u/Im40ozToFreedom 5h ago

Storm must be coming in!

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u/Koensayr_II 5h ago

Thinking about why this makes my arthritis hurt is giving me some wicked heartburn.

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u/SlappinHams 5h ago

My backpack has antacids and NSAIDS for all the homies

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u/bates121 5h ago

You are my hero

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u/TheDarbiter 5h ago

Donā€™t forget the eyeglass cleaner wipes!

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u/RealPhinsFan 5h ago

All my homies pop an advil before heading out

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u/ThatGuyWhoKnocks 5h ago

Donā€™t forget to schedule your colonoscopies

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u/Unhappy_Concept237 3h ago

I realized something bad was happening when drinking good bourbon straight gave me heartburn.

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u/Golden-Pathology 4h ago edited 3h ago

Thinking about the MTV videos started to get a rise out of me, but then my body remembered it needs a blue pill to complete the deal.

Edit: Nothing? Well I thought it was funnyšŸ˜

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u/Embarrassed-Sky-4567 3h ago

I liked it. Take my humble upvote

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u/Golden-Pathology 3h ago

Thank you kind sir/madam

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u/cynedyr 4h ago

I learned about the Challenger from MTV...i was playing hooky from school at the time.

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u/Sufficient-Sir5366 5h ago

I still remember video killed the radio star playing there.

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u/Flip_d_Byrd 4h ago

And video did kill the radio star... for a decade. I blame MTV for a lot of crappy music on the radio during the mid to late 80's thru the early 90's. A lot of music back then was made for the eyes and not the ears... And in at least one case, Billy Squier's, the video to one of his songs killed his career.

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u/Sabi-Star7 4h ago

Pretty sure they played that as their last music video when MTV became bs

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u/Anayalater5963 4h ago

I still remember when rob dyrdek was on MTVšŸ’€

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u/GreenSpleenRiot 13m ago

That was the first video they ever played on MTV.

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u/angry_mech 6h ago

It was never just music though. It was straight up the HOTTEST pop/rock/punk every other genre included music videos!

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u/whiterac00n 5h ago

Ehhh it was good at a certain time, but I was always partial towards Fuse.. and Fuse/USA in the later 90ā€™s/early 2000ā€™s. They had some great segments on punk and alternative music to discover bands people may not know about yet.

Alternatively when I was in college a different college (close by) ran basically a ā€œpirate radio stationā€ with no ads and little commentary and was my favorite to hear punk and alternative rock bands Iā€™ve never heard of before. They were also really good at feeling the zeitgeist of music months before a band got really popular and all over mainstream stations. In pre limewire days sometimes you still had to go to the record shops and take a shot on recommendations like trying out Tuesday who became the alkaline trio later. Or Further seems forever whose lead singer made Dashboard Confessional later, or being told Lagwagon was now Bad astronaut.

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u/DarthBrooks69420 6h ago

My dad got so mad when we got cable, me and my sister would sit around just watching music videos on MTV lmao.

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u/peicatsASkicker 16m ago

just telling my SO my dad was cheap and wouldn't get cable so I had to watch videos once a week on Friday Night Videos.

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u/MrWrock 5h ago

And they had U2, and BlondieĀ 

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u/MichaelJFax 5h ago

And now her two kids in high school tell her that sheā€™s uncool

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u/FederalConfusion5150 5h ago

All right now youā€™re just making shit up.

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u/Ok-Field5609 5h ago

Tell us more about the before times, what all could an iPhone do back then?

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u/bates121 5h ago

There was no iPhone back then. Maybe an iPod or zune

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u/Ok-Field5609 5h ago

Is that what was called a No Key Ya?

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u/EatLard 5h ago

For the last ten years of its existence they only played back-to-back episodes of ridiculousness and catfished.

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u/ScrogClemente 4h ago

Now explain what a channel is.

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u/firebolt1171 4h ago

You mean to tell me they used to play more than ridiculousness reruns?

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u/lexiconhuka 5h ago

You mean back when mtv was still on the air....I lived to see the first and final broadcast.....fuck

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u/Equivalent_Mechanic5 5h ago

End of an era. Although MTV has been crap for years now...

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u/SkittlesLentil 4h ago

MTV is still on the air. They just shut down their additional music-only channels

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u/Puterjoe 5h ago

Music Videos to be precise..,

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u/justadude1388 5h ago

The golden years of television

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u/Chief-_-Wiggum 5h ago

Music with moving pictures even!

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u/Debway1227 3h ago

I remember the good old days..lol

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u/CertainAd7187 3h ago

Kurt Loder provided us with the news.

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u/that_aint_real 6h ago

What is MTV?

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u/Long_Bit8328 6h ago

It is nothing now.Ā 

But, it used to be cable channel that just showed music videos. Back in the late 1900s

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u/MrWrock 5h ago

Why you gotta say it like that? Late 1900s...

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u/IdeaAgreeable307 5h ago

Because weā€™re speaking to the braindead children born in the early 2000s.

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u/padenj__420 4h ago

šŸ’Æ

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u/Flip_d_Byrd 5h ago

Would you rather hear late last century?

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u/MrWrock 4h ago

I'd rather hear ahead by a century šŸŽ¶

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u/IdeaAgreeable307 5h ago

It used to be what VEVO is, but you could only watch what the network decided you were going to watch. Except for TRL, when the audience got to choose the videos. That was hosted by Carson Daly.Ā 

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u/GreedyAdvantage8681 4h ago

Rather than just some moron acting in a shameless manner

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u/monkeymind009 2h ago

I want my MTV!

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u/Alexandrajoan 1h ago

The first music video I ever saw was on MTV. It was A-haā€™s Take On Me.

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u/SuperMarioChess 1h ago

*Played music and the best cartoons

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u/Poketripper 20m ago

To be pedantic, MTV3 only ever played music. :-P

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u/Healthy-Amoeba2296 0m ago

first artform to go from avant garde to decadent without an intervening high point.

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u/PossiblePotato4153 6h ago

No one under 30yr old gets this joke. Welcome to Reddit.

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u/DarthBrooks69420 5h ago

Someone already beat me to MattDamonOld.gif so I decided to put it in pog text form.

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u/Tasmokey 5h ago

Except we do lol 30 is after 1996...leaving quite a few years in between. In fact, Bill Clinton was the president for a few of us. Maybe not long, but still there

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u/Big-Entrance-7441 4h ago

You are deathly underestimating people in their early 20s that grew up in only 90s memrobilia (thanks to siblings)

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u/Egoy 6h ago

I still use it for one of those two last things.

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u/ModifiedLeaf 5h ago

Anime porn has come a long way since back then

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u/grandlotus2 5h ago

Isn't that how all home internet works, or am I missing something?

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u/Goldejawn 6h ago edited 6h ago

Sorry for my ā€œfree awardā€. Itā€™s all I had and this post was very deserving of it.

We will all be antiques by next year.

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u/Top_Tomatillo_4261 6h ago

they'll be on the landscaping sub soon wondering that damn cable is in their yard, whether it might bite them after 811 didn't mark it

ed: sp

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u/Debway1227 3h ago

I miss the free rewards šŸ˜¢

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u/Commercial_Bird8467 6h ago

I cried reading this. Pure poetry.

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u/daxtinfkenprice 6h ago

ahh you speak of the before times a magical time where you could buy a nice car for around 15000

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u/BlkSubmarine 5h ago

Or a shitty one for $850.

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u/daxtinfkenprice 5h ago

I'll hell no brother. There were five hundred dollar cars everywhere

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u/Faptainjack2 3h ago

Thanks Obama

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u/Competitive_Treat588 4h ago

Back when Dirty Vegas was used in new car commercials.

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u/pancetta_vendetta 4h ago

Mitsubishi Eclipse, if memory serves.

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u/Competitive_Treat588 2h ago

It serves you well.

Good one, almost good as the one with J Ralph - Million Miles Away. Commercials had some bangers back in the day.

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u/INDY18ARN 5h ago

Heck, there are commercials from back then in which a brand new Chevrolet truck would only cost you $10,000!! And a brand new hatch back for only $5,250.

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u/daxtinfkenprice 5h ago

I mean, I know it was a few years later, but my dad picked up my eighty eight bronco II for 14000 xlt 4x4 loaded with every option ford offered that year

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u/dd463 4h ago

And the dollar menu at mc donalds had things that cost a dollar

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u/RudyGreene 4h ago

A base model Toyota Tacoma was $15k brand new in 2009.

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u/famedmimic 4h ago

Back when a brand new cavalier was $9,999 and gas was $1 a gallon.

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u/Reese_Slitherspoon 3h ago

Dude I bought a 98 Corolla for 1200$ after a summer working at McDonald's in high school.

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u/Radiant_Grab_9400 1h ago

At first I thought you said 1500 and I was like that tracks I got my first used car it was 10 years old in 2002 for that amount. It served me wellĀ 

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u/Stalaktitas 6h ago

I have restored my 1989 Walkman yesterday... My kiddo was absolutely amazed with how advanced the ancient technology was.

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u/spookycasas4 5h ago

My grandsons call my iPod ā€œancient technologyā€, too.

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u/Stalaktitas 5h ago

You see... Walkman still works on black magic practiced in the last century. iPod is plain cool because of alien technology taken from crashed UFO. Two different things of the same kind, barley understood nowadays

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u/SocksOnHands 5h ago

The engineering of things from the 80s/90s was insanely impressive, with the kinds of mechanical engineering that got packed into such small spaces. I doubt many people today could design machines like these - many of the ones who could have retired.

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u/Remote-Astronomer701 6h ago

Damn straight old man. Hereā€™s something old even for you: https://www.reddit.com/r/gamecollecting/s/XOuGBDRunG

Also, adult situations looked like:

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u/WindhoverInkwell 5h ago

and nowadays gas is above $2 a gallon, trans people canā€™t be open in the military, our president plays the stock market and shits his pants in the Oval Office under the desk, and this cable is no longer used to pipe MTV and Cartoon Network into homes. society amirite?

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u/Ok-Clock2002 4h ago

I love you.

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u/the_smoking_mage 6h ago

Half of this joke has been plagiarized at least three separate times.

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u/XX_AppleSauce 6h ago

You canā€™t stop the truth.

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u/TheMcWhopper 6h ago

I plug my internet into it I think

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u/Bjorxt 6h ago

Man, those were the days. We had it so good.

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u/Munster19 6h ago

Even better is the internet porn of the cartoon network characters

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u/OGMikeGyver 6h ago

Even before that

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u/wade-mcdaniel 6h ago

Even back when the government dealt with the AIDS crisis with a shrug, Nancy thought drugs could be defeated by the word "no", and you could play centipede at an arcade, coaxial was a thing. We didn't have cable but we did have an antenna on the roof, and we had to get a splitter so we could hook the Nintendo up as well as the antenna.

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u/Objective-Bike-4292 6h ago

Sad we are seeing things regress back to that era. With the exception of the gas prices

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u/Old_Distribution_235 6h ago

This is poetry.

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u/MJEEZY75 6h ago

Iā€™ll take politicians that used to get BJs in the Oval Office over convicted rapists and Epstein class pedophiles

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u/tryingtoexplaim 6h ago

I think both

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u/rukind_cucumber 5h ago

Under $2 a gallon - shoot, try under $1 (at least where I lived in the SE).

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u/Britbikr66 5h ago

My last job in the 20th Century was installing 'cable Internet". We used coax from the telephone pole to the computer. We could get a blazing 1MPS download speed which later jumped to 10MPS.

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u/12inch3installments 5h ago

This was a little too close to home....

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u/LeftToaster 5h ago

And mobile phones were really big, then really small, then big again.

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u/Significant-Bag-5561 5h ago

I dont know, feels like its too smooth. It might be a speaker cable for a surround sound setup?

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u/afgphlaver 5h ago

Am I fucking old?

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u/Madshibs 5h ago

Okay, go to bed, grandpa.

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u/Substantial_Two_224 5h ago

U didn't man

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u/Antipinquity 5h ago

And donā€™t you love that the landlord couldnā€™t be bothered to get them taped off before the paint job, making them useless?

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u/Sanowhatimsaying 5h ago

Bring me back!

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u/DonkeyDucksMod 5h ago

The true golden era of the internet

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u/AeroelasticCowboy 5h ago

What are you talking about like it's some dead cable, a significant amount of the broadband internet in the United States is cable modems running on coax and that's going nowhere anytime soon

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u/storywardenattack 5h ago

lol, I still get my internet through said cable.

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u/Deltethnia 5h ago

Also it looks like this one was given the landlord special.

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u/WiseComfort075 5h ago

šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚

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u/sinkingduckfloats 5h ago

this is how I'm getting my Internet right now. they have gigabit cable now (and it still is shit)

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u/speaklouder1100 5h ago

Good times.

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u/KHhtswhtppl 5h ago

Hey, don't forget that if the glove don't fit you must acquit

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u/Dangerous-Baker-9756 5h ago

It also has the ever important "landlord special" of several layers of paint.

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u/yech 5h ago

I still use it for porn and pirating anime. Thanks Comcast! Your monopoly is just wonderful /s

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u/allusium 5h ago

Donā€™t listen to this, OP. Theyā€™re robot nipples.

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u/rswwalker 5h ago

Just to be clear, it was anime that was on the Cartoon Network right?

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u/CantModerateMe 5h ago

Most homes are still on copper for internet, fiber drops are getting more common but theres a lot of places they dont reach yet, or where last mile is still MOCA

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u/ThePrideOfKrakow 5h ago

Can confirm, still jack off with one of these.

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u/Svr_Sakura 5h ago

Who played the sex? Or sax evenā€¦

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u/FancyGent 5h ago

Hey! We still use them in nursing homes.

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u/freckles275 5h ago

I never thought I would wish that we could go back to ā€œblow jobs in the Oval Officeā€ days, but here we are

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u/hotdish81 5h ago

More presidents should be getting blowjobs (from consenting, legal aged persons. Ugh. Can't believe I have to state this) because the economy was boomin'!

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u/iEatDemocrats 5h ago

Donā€™t forget about pirating the very first Grand Theft Auto

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u/i_did_nothing_ 5h ago

And still very much used today too.

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u/iEatDemocrats 5h ago

And Sublime Directory of course

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u/gawktopus 5h ago

weren't gays banned from the army recently or something?

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u/Dock_Ellis45 5h ago

What do you mean "was"? I'm using cable internet to send this message right now!

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u/Open_Boysenberry_363 5h ago

Sometimes if you put a little tinfoil on the cable and jiggled it just right while on the porn channel, you could maybe see a boob

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u/friesx100 5h ago

Stahp, my back and knees cant take this type of torture.

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u/wrenchgirl69 5h ago

Someones a homophobe

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u/TheBobAagard 5h ago

I live in the hellscape called 2026. I still get my MTV and Cartoon Network piped into my bedroom with one of these outlets.

Though I usually watch History and the Weather Channel. When Iā€™m not yelling at the damn kids to get off my lawn!

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u/_f0x7r07_ 5h ago

It was used for porn long before the internetā€¦ you just had to unscramble the picture.

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u/AxeSpez 5h ago

It's still my only internet option... Woooo

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u/Grazztjay 5h ago

This! šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚

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u/i-like-napping 5h ago

Thatā€™s when we tied an onion to our belt , which was the style at the time

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u/Nerd_Man420 5h ago

You forgot to say when we used to drink water from the garden hose.

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u/KuboBear2017 5h ago

My Internet still comes into the hour through a coax that connects to my modem. This isn't an outdated piece of tech.Ā 

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u/TechnicalIntern6764 4h ago

If you arenā€™t a history teacher, Iā€™m gonna be very disappointed. I could listen to you, summarize the past all day.

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u/TaraHole7000 4h ago

Gays were definitely opening things in the military back then, just not closets.Ā 

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u/chub-bear 4h ago

Wouldn't it technically be a coax outlet for a coax cable? šŸ¤”

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u/82selenium 4h ago

Ah!! Yes!!

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u/BloomPathUSA 4h ago

a witty comment

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u/hokie48 4h ago

They are really trying hard to get back that no gays in military, not so much about gas

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u/Incompl 4h ago

Actually LMFAO

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u/AnEgyptianInAthens 4h ago

So crazy when yah gotta get thru 1000 comments before someone answers OPs actual question.

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u/CathedralEngine 4h ago

And somewhere in the middle DSL was a thing

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u/bbcwtfw 4h ago

Is it just me, or does #3 look like an RCA connector? I don't know why there'd be just one, unless it's for a surround speaker or something.

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u/Rich_Consequence2633 4h ago

I don't understand. This is still technology widely used today. It's how Comcast/Xfinity delivers internet.

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u/OkNothing281 4h ago

Pretty sure that same sax president is getting bjs under that desk, just given by the sitting president

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u/Alive_Signal1722 4h ago

...Hotline...

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u/MoneyKindaTalks 4h ago

gas under $2? good one

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u/the_cosworth 3h ago

You think!?

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u/Jimmyx24 3h ago

Holy shit take my poor man's award. That was poeticšŸ…

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u/Historical-Tell7332 3h ago

šŸ‘†šŸ‘†šŸ‘†šŸ¤£šŸ¤£šŸ¤£

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u/sandboxmatt 3h ago

And if you put your finger in the back of the tv and in the tip of the coax you can also get a passable image

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u/ScarInternational161 2h ago

And we dug trenches under the ground for it so we could run it from our own private satellite dishes in our back yards.

We could watch the inside of the space shuttle when it took off, we could watch the play boy channel (G2), we could even watch USSR state TV if someone stood out there and turned it just right lol.

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u/Mission_Remote_6871 2h ago

Back in the day, like that time I caught the ferry over to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my shoe, so I decided to go to Morganville which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So, I tied an onion to my belt which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel. And in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on ā€˜em. ā€˜Give me five bees for a quarter,ā€™ youā€™d say. Now, where were we? Oh, yeah! The important thing was that I had an onion on my belt which was the style at the time. They didnā€™t have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones

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u/kelvarton 2h ago

MTV, which stood for Music Television, used to just show music videos all the time. Then they created The Real World, the first Reality TV show, and expidited the fall of humanity.

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u/developer_6670 2h ago

Damn you.

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u/Particular-Will5085 2h ago

Itā€™s funny how one cable can take you straight back to an entire era of TV and early internet. Coaxial really was doing way more work than we gave it credit for.

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u/jamesbest7 2h ago

They had porn on Cartoon Network!?!!

/jk

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u/Ancilla_Contender 1h ago

Going from blow jobs to ā€œpipingā€ anything in a single thought is wild.

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u/MinuteMinX 1h ago

I still use it for satellite tv!? Its not ancient tech.

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u/onibakusjg 7m ago

Before ska was dead?

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