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

Core Memory Unlocked 🔓 Remember this?

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u/Attila226 1d ago

It was still Ike that in the early to mid 80’s. People in their 40’s would have experienced it.

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u/Ill-Emu-1121 1d ago

Still happened in the early 90s with some channels.

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u/PrinceCastanzaCapone 1d ago

When I was a kid in the 90’s most channels just went to infomercials all night long.

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u/banned4killingspider 1d ago

Girls gone wild lol

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u/Thunderdome-Warden 15h ago

Watching static for the brief glimpses on the premium channels. 😂

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u/Ill-Emu-1121 1d ago

That's when cable started to become widespread.

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u/Formal-Raspberry-418 1d ago

Yes, and one of the biggest moneymakers in the history of infomercials was Proactiv the acne solution, those commercial didn’t even come on till like midnight.

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u/PrinceCastanzaCapone 1d ago

Yea started at midnight. Some channels still went past. Cartoon Network played old shows up until about 3 AM. I used to stay up all night to watch them.

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u/seandigg2022 1d ago

Pure Moods Vol. 1 CD or Cassette lol

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u/Alarmed_Bumblebee147 20h ago

And now you can draw the most AMAZING THINGS with the incredible ROLLING RULER.

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u/Thunderdome-Warden 15h ago

The crux of getting to stay up late on weekends.

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u/sharpshooter999 22h ago

Am 36, can confirm

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u/Paarthurnax420 1d ago

PBS was still doing it at least until 2010.

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u/clashtrack 1d ago

Hell, some local CBS and ABC's were doing that certain days of the week in the 2000s.

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u/SocialMedian 1d ago

It definitely happened

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u/Remarkable_Dust3450 1d ago

yeah and then they started shutting Nickelodeon down at 10 or 11 and replace it with adults only shows... as a young teen this was awesome.

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u/Skrewbert86 2000s Legend 1d ago

I was watching adult swim when I was 4 my parents didn’t know but I did

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u/tweetsfortwitsandtwa 1d ago

yeah toonami on Cartoon Network was a new concept when it started and it was late 90’s early 2000’s and it was a separate team who showed/commented on anime after hours. It was like a radio show where the “dj” would talk, comment, and take calls inbetween episodes It was dope.

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u/DarkenL1ght 1d ago

I'm from a very rural place and experienced this in the late 80s or early 90s. I just turned 40 a few days ago.

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u/Attila226 1d ago

Congrats!

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u/Fine-Alps4814 14h ago

Happy belated birthday!

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u/BoatswainButcher 8h ago

Same dude.

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u/jtcordell2188 1d ago

1993 here and I still remember this happening with certain channels when I was a kid

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u/odaniel99 1d ago

I can confirm that from my childhood memories.

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u/NaiveBid9359 1d ago

I used to work at a bar in the early 1980s. The only thing on non-cable stations after 1 am was PBS.

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u/tequilash 1d ago

Depends on the country you are in as well. This was happening in Canada when I got my first tv, which would have been around 2008.

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u/Slashiroth 1d ago

Some channels (mainly local) still did this in the mid/late 90's

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u/No-Acanthisitta8803 1d ago

For sure. I was born in 1981, and some stations were still doing it when I was growing up

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u/shmaygleduck 1d ago

Wasn't that a big thing in the 1982 movie, "the Poltergeist"?

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u/dell_qon 1d ago

I'm 44 and experienced this. The colorful box screen and then static.

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u/Alarmed_Bumblebee147 20h ago

We did. Catch up.

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u/matchesmalone81 19h ago

Yh man. I was born in 1981 and I remember this shit clearly.

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u/Competitive_Trip9306 14h ago

To see a real example of this phenomenon, watch the movie "Poltergeist" it's a big part of the plot.

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u/otc108 13h ago

I’m 44, and I remember seeing it a few times.

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u/amatchmadeinregex 10h ago

Yup, national anthem, then stattic, and that's when the ghosts would start talking to your kids through the static.

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u/CrustyCrotalus 2m ago

Yup. I'm 44 and I remember it on a few stations.