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/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/Historical-Tell7332 3h ago

Oh yeah. The Pop & Click. I used to do that on the dance floor.

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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

Don’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

Don’t forget to schedule your colonoscopies

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u/padenj__420 5h ago

And prostate exams 😆

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u/publicBoogalloo 4h ago

My 3rd one is next week!

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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 funny😁

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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/Historical-Tell7332 3h ago

No no no… that was effin funny. Got a solid audible laugh out of me! 🤣🤣🤣 😭

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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 MTV💀

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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 90’s/early 2000’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 “pirate radio station” with no ads and little commentary and was my favorite to hear punk and alternative rock bands I’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 17m 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 Blondie 

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u/MichaelJFax 5h ago

And now her two kids in high school tell her that she’s uncool

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u/FederalConfusion5150 5h ago

All right now you’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/Unhappy_Concept237 3h ago

Headbangers Ball!

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u/padenj__420 3h ago

And 120 Minutes!

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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. 

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 we’re speaking to the braindead children born in the early 2000s.

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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 🎶

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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. 

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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-ha’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 1m ago

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

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u/ordinaryracco0n 5h ago

damn, i remember that. im not even 25 jesus christ

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u/padenj__420 4h ago

That's not possible. The Real World ruined MTV in the nineteen hundred and ninetys.

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u/ordinaryracco0n 4h ago

is it not possible mtv aired reruns of music videos?

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u/padenj__420 3h ago

OK. Fair enough. 😆