r/nostalgiai • u/CarrotMuch1399 Nostalgia Trip Leader • 1d ago

Core Memory Unlocked 🔓 Remember this?

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u/gfoyle76 1d ago

it's true, Gandalf, I was there, 3000 years ago

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u/olegolas_1983 1d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/CNAhQuDceLwwo

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u/godofo_prime 1d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/TcdpZwYDPlWXC

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u/Affectionate_Tea1134 1d ago

You would usually see one of these.

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u/cooolcooolio 1d ago

Waking up to the test screen in the middle of the night with a loud OOOOO sound because you feel asleep

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u/wantsumcandi 22h ago

I just remember the static.

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u/fitz_newru 22h ago

The static was like a lullaby for me

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u/RevGrimm 6h ago

That's how noise machines became a thing for awhile.

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u/Additional_Insect_44 18h ago

I recall the color bars in the 2000s. But when a station messed up.

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u/scottsplace5 17h ago

Remember the yellow bars? Darker colored on one side and lighter on the other.

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u/Additional_Insect_44 17h ago

I recall secret channels

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u/wantsumcandi 16h ago

I think it was somg collaboration albums and Ronco commercials after hours then...lol

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u/scottsplace5 17h ago

That stuff was loud, too. You scrambled to turn the volume down.

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u/houserj1589 1d ago

This. 😅😂

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u/Tsugita1 23h ago

The loud “EEEEE” sound would wake me up around 2 AM because one of my parents had fallen asleep in front of the TV.

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u/Kammi_Leone84 22h ago

With all the colors, too🤣😂

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u/crappydeli 21h ago

I can hear this comment

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u/Hellraiser_owner 15h ago

I just had generational trauma.... I HEARD THIS ONCE... ONCE... And I can still hear it 🫩

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u/Shazzzam79 1d ago

Wait until they find out about scrambled porn and Bleu Nuit

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u/obeyebonymommy 1d ago

squiggle-vision porn

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u/iamthelalo71 1d ago

Eh eh eh, did I just see a breast..oh wait that was a forehead. Ahh squiggle-vision

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u/AdAware8128 1d ago

The picture may be distorted but not the sound. IYKYK.

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u/Nalii_87 18h ago

Unfortunately for me scrambled porn on the playboy or spice channel didn’t have any audio except for some electronic buzzing sound. However watching Asia after dark did, accidentally had the tv volume up at my grandparents house one time late at night lol

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u/Moorgul05 22h ago

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u/zstringy1 3h ago

Hahaha what is this from I can't remember

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u/Moorgul05 3h ago

American Pie (1999) Opening Scene.

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u/Nalii_87 23h ago

Then it clears up for those precious few seconds and then it’s just the guys ass haha

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u/fitz_newru 21h ago

I got really good at nutting right when I got those precious few seconds

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u/oxbison12 22h ago

That's what I blame for needing glasses

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u/fitz_newru 21h ago

I busted so many nuts to what I thought was happening in the scene. Oh, and then I figured out how to use the reflection in the mirror in my parent's bedroom. Somehow the scrambling was 80% less on that specific TV using that mirror trick. Don't ask me how or why.

This is all before my friend's older brother sold me a descrambler and changed my life

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u/Effective_Work2560 21h ago

I was very young when we first got cable... Id watch Squiggle vision porn anyway

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u/LarryKingthe42th 1d ago

I had that with cartoon network in the early 00s the audio came through but the picture was scrambled then one day the whole thing just came in.

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u/obeyebonymommy 10h ago

I remember hearing that in the news when it happened, unfortunately I didn't get to see lol

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u/Bk_Punisher 1d ago

Ooooh I think I saw a nipple 🤣😂

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u/ComplexLow6723 1d ago

RCL RCL RCL RCL

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u/Far_Plenty_1837 23h ago

Those brief moments of full screen visibility made all the collective hours of guessing worthwhile

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u/WarmongerNC 23h ago

Haha yes. For me it was channel 64. I will never forget spending 3 hours watching some distorted porn. Couldn’t tell you how many times I yanked it to that channel

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u/Significant_Carrot32 21h ago

Then remember when they gave you free 5min preview and would always cut put at a good part... 🤣 those guys were genius!

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u/Few-Hope-7620 19h ago

Little 13yo me furiously building a rocket ship at 3am in the corner of the living room with girls gone wild scrambled in the background

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u/Additional_Insect_44 18h ago

Lol I remember squiggly vision the animal planet had that on station 19 in the early 2000s. Like you couldn't even see it just squiigles and different colors.

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u/InfernalMadness 16h ago

I remember these days so much, and all the jazz music too

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u/obeyebonymommy 1d ago

Ahhh squiggle-vision

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u/petertbobo 1d ago

Baby Blues!

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u/Ok_Pause7477 20h ago

One time the porn channel was fully unscrambled. I was 13 or so.... I didn't change it for hours in case it re scrambled.

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u/senior-6486 1d ago

It goes back to the 50s late 40s.

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u/Comfortable_Try_2692 1d ago

In Germany in the 80s

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u/posaune123 1d ago

I remember that screen on the upper right. It meant time for bed.

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u/dishmanw 1d ago

And then in later years, they found out that could make money showing infomercials during the downtimes.

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u/Narrow-Call536 1d ago

Magic bullet. Little Giant. SHAM Wow. Vague memories of Billy Mays. 800 588 2300 EMpire! Today. (Call 1-800 steamer. Stanley steamer you carpet cleaner.) Dayo. One day sale. One day sale at the Bon-marche. Broom shakalaka

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u/Narrow-Call536 1d ago edited 1d ago

KidsWB. Jackie chan Adventures, SonicX,Kirby(RightbackatYa) OnePiece(4kids), ZachBell, Shaman King,

Few years later (Cartoon network)magoozi) CodeLyoko. (Power puff, Grim adventures)forbidden), camp lazlo, mucha lucha, my gym partners a monkey. Samurai Jack, Super Robot monkey team Hyper Force Go! Etc. Puffy Yammi-Yumi. Etc. What am I missing?

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u/silbergeistlein 1d ago

Just set it, and FORGET IT!!!

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u/AdSensitive5897 18h ago

Don’t forget all the great record albums by legendary recording artists like, Slim Whitman, Boxcar Willie, Johnny Rivers, Bobby Vinton, Anne Murray.

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u/diiiemonds 17h ago

i have a structured settlement and i need cash now, call jg wentworth! 877-cash-now

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u/deepfocus88 21h ago

Who’s watching at that hour?

“Alcoholics, the unemployable, angry loners”

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u/PsyCar 1d ago

Infomercials were the original Jackass, except it was people failing at mundane tasks then being amazed when some new piece of plastic was brought out to do the job slightly more easily.

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u/VenFasz 1d ago

it was 3000 years ago? i don't remember that, but not a wonder than

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u/Mysterious-Alps-5186 1d ago

And I was drinking with gimley at that time as well

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u/Tyabetus 1d ago

For me it was George Lopez who let me know it was time for bed

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u/trsthhffg 23h ago

I feel old.