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Submitted ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • Lenny@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I remember having to crack the PIN code to access the locked channels (which would just give me access to things like skinemax late at night). I faked sick one day to stay home and set to work. I think there was a short timeout after a few failed attempts, so you only go so fast. It only took 852 tries but I got it! It was 0852, which was just a straight line up the keypad 😑

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    • Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s way more dedication to a nut then I’ve ever had

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      • Passerby6497@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Bruh, I remember trying to watch dirty skinemax through cable snow when your (friend’s) parents didn’t pay for the channel and somehow didn’t require a descrambler to get a partial signal.

        The lengths we used to have to go for a nut…

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      • riodoro1@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Assuming there even was a nut…

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    • Holyginz@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Hearing this let’s me realize how lucky I was in this regard. I got a PSP when I was young and either my parents didn’t know it had an internet browser or they didn’t know it was a fully fleshed out browser.

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      • Passerby6497@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I grew up on AOL, and the day I figured out internet explorer allowed me to access the Internet outside of their locked down kids mode was glorious.

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      • bizzle@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I did the Wipeout Pure exploit in the days before the PSP had a real browser, it was AMAZING.

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    • Moah@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This makes me realize if I pick a code it had to start with a 9

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  • Outhouse_dayz@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Make sure to hit last, channel up, last. Foolish proof. I’ll never get caught.

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    • Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This guy faps.

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    • treadful@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Here I thought I was the only one this clever.

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  • weegee90@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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    • GrammarPolice@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  • dharmacurious@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    My dad got these black market cable boxes from one of his less than reputable friends way back when. We got literally everything, including full porn channels that weren’t scrambled. They were technically blocked by my parents, but the family pincode was well known.

    I used to watch the porn channels and never could figure out why they were so… Meh for me. Turns out, very gay. Lol

    Once my parents split up we didn’t have those boxes anymore, and I used to watch Cat House and went through the same “why is this so frustratingly close to being good” experience lol

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    • Entropywins@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Quick question…was straight porn like ew gross or just not interesting? I find your porn story really funny and hope I don’t offend by saying so.

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      • dharmacurious@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        No, not gross. Before I knew I was gay it more frustrating than anything. Like, I knew this was sexual, I knew I wanted to enjoy it, and I knew it made me horny. But it wasn’t enough to cross than line into, like, getting me there and being enjoyable. It wasn’t until I found my brother’s porn magazines that I really enjoyed porn, and that was because of the guys in it, and a few erotic stories in them written from women’s POV. I still didn’t realize I was gay or that it was the guys getting me there until one day, when I was like 13/14 and I had a blackberry. I found a site that had nude pictures of celebrities (some blog, not like a dedicated site), and there were (I’m assuming fake) nudes or Kirk Cameron on a boat. OMG, I got off so hard, and then went into full panic when I realized what that meant. Spent the next few years trying to figure out how to undo it. Lol.

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    • ouRKaoS@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I do believe it was a 4001 Diode soldered between pins 5 and 7; got everything but HBO…

      Used to have all my friends over for the WWF pay-per-views.

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  • Grabthar@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Had C-band satellite as a teen. All the good channels locked. But if the satellite Spacenet 1 transponder 18 was locked, you could “fine tune” the reception from say, Galaxy 3 transponder 18 by holding the step up or down button, and manually swing the dish halfway across the sky to the same position where Spacenet 1 is. As the descrambler thinks you are watching a different satellite altogether, there is no more lock. And since you never actually visited a bad channel, no way to tell with history or last buttons.

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    • Gerudo@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      How did you even find this out?

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      • Grabthar@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        We knew that if you pressed the satellite button and channel up/down, it let you manually move the dish, and it didn’t care how long you did it. There were also numbers to indicate the position of the dish. The rest was just sheer determination.

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      • BluJay320@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Desperation

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    • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Respect.

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    • brbposting@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Incredible.

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  • FardyCakes@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I feel seen

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    • anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah but if you were watching Nick at nite the whole time, why did the channel number flick on the screen for a second?

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      • FardyCakes@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I switched away during the cash for gold commercial

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  • bulwark@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Real Sex always seemed so not sexy. I mean, I’d watch it for boobs as a kid, but I was always kind of turned off by the whole show, idk.

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    • celsiustimeline@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Kinda like red shoe diaries. It wasn’t porn, it was usually some kind of shitty crime movie or student arthouse film with boobs.

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      • Lenny@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        To young me the most interesting part of that show was the beginning and seeing Mulder (David Duchovny) in something outside of the X-Files

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  • JaymesRS@literature.cafe ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    scrambled channel gif

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    • jenny_ball@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      ah yes, spice

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    My dad was a film historian, so we had HBO, Cinemax and Showtime in case anything came on that he needed to tape to show to a class.

    This was quite helpful to teenage me in the era before internet porn.

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    • Routhinator@startrek.website ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      And here I just had Blue Nuit

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  • GBU_28@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You fool, mother could also just hit “last” and catch you in both deceit AND boobin

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    • lengau@midwest.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Not if Nickelodeon is right next to Cartoon Network. You hit “last” and then change the channel. That also gives you cover for why you’re holding the remote and changing channels.

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      • bizzle@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        60 and 59, bro 😎

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  • SSJMarx@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This, and the really long late night Girls Gone Wild commercials on Comedy Central. I think the first thing I ever pirated was a GGW video, lmao.

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    • Rakonat@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Oh the disappointment to realize “wait, this is it?”

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  • Grimy@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is what I was trying to get off too. A few years later, I found out the art channel would sometimes play dirty movies on Saturday late at night but they usually involved incest(?). Then I switched to music channels when they started showing provocative music video so that was nice. I had one of those little tvs with the vcr integrated. Good times.

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    • Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Should have bought a subscription to Radio and Electronics. I built a descrambler using their schematics.

      Holy crap some of it still exists. schematicsforfree.com/…/1984-02 Analog Cable TV D…

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      • Grimy@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Ha, knowing about this would have probably changed my life in more ways then one. I would have started my career as a hobby and saved a lot more time.

        And God knows I would have been serious about learning this stuff as a teen if there was free porn at the end of it.

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      • _stranger_@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You think circuits are your friend? By the time I was old enough to convince my parents to buy me a soldering iron I was already a man.

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  • Underwaterbob@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    In Canada, we had “Bleu Nuit”. It was on at 2am, Saturday night, and played racy French movies. The only problem was the movies ran the gamut from full softcore porn to maybe a single shot with boobies somewhere in the middle. You took your chances. I swear there was one that didn’t even show anything (but probably talked about sex. Dunno, I don’t speak much French.)

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  • Qkall@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    y’all remember that vcr trick that you could unscramble all the PPV channels… golden times… golden times.

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    • Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Wait. what black magic is this? 12 year old me desperately wants to know.

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      • kyle@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I have no idea. If you recorded something on vhs it didn’t play it back unscrambled did it?

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      • Qkall@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Dunno how replies notify… but I replied to a reply on your reply.

        <_<’

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  • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    …and the mirror on the bedroom door set so that I could see who’s coming down the hall.

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    • skibidi@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      But if you could see them, they could see you …

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      • Dearth@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        But you were in the dark, camouflaged in your bedding. Anyone coming down the hall was a silhouette against the white walls of the hallway.

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  • Idreamofcheesy@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Here I am watching scrambled Sex and the City, wondering when it will get to the good part.

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  • SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Red shoe diaries

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    • Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Ah, a man of culture, I see. This was my choice.

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    • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I think you meant Emmanuelle.

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    • Barndog53@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Red Shoe Diaries, backed by Much Music (I’m Canadian)

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    • BreadOven@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      On showcase haha.

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  • d00ery@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Eurotrash was an option in the UK for those without any satellite.

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    • Aggravationstation@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      We had Sky, it was British Sex for me.

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  • hactar42@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I always set the last button to the TV guide channel. It made it less suspicious if they saw the channel change. Or at least that’s what I reasoned.

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  • FenrirIII@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Cinemax taught me how to work a VCR

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  • AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Told my mom we should keep Cinemax because they had good movies coming up.

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  • Gingerlegs@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I thought I was the only one smart enough to devise this plan!

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