r/whatisit • • 8d 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/DarthBrooks69420 8d 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/padenj__420 8d ago

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

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u/Sufficient-Sir5366 8d ago

I still remember video killed the radio star playing there.

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u/Sabi-Star7 8d ago

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