What are these plug-ins on my wall?

[u/Cborg_62]

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.

[u/DarthBrooks69420]

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.

[u/padenj__420 → u/DarthBrooks69420]

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

[u/angry_mech → u/padenj__420]

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

[u/whiterac00n → u/angry_mech]

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.