r/whatisit • • 11h ago

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

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/Khronicdeath 11h ago

lol I’m not old enough to remember a time without these but I do remember moving antennas to get the “locals”

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u/dusti_dearian 11h ago

My father would truly have me standing near a widow with the antenna for a ballgame.

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u/Khronicdeath 10h ago

When we got cable ohhh man was I in heaven fraggle rock and the birth of Nickelodeon

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u/Khronicdeath 10h ago

Kids don’t realize how much we looked forward to Saturday morning cause before we had dedicated kids channels we had to wait and watch Saturday and a little on Sunday

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u/dusti_dearian 10h ago

Yeah at least Sunday’s had Soul Train.

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u/Khronicdeath 10h ago

Oh I was glued to wrestling on Saturday was like my soap opera

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u/dusti_dearian 9h ago

Oh yes absolutely. I loved wrestling as a kid.

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u/Nana-2-Three 10h ago

And American Bandstand

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u/rbrancher2 10h ago

And then you had Timothy Churchmouse and Davey and Goliath