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shanegibson•20h ago

A guy in a classic TV forum told me my VHS tapes were degrading because I stored them wrong, and he was right

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joelp81•1d ago

Am I the only one who taped over their dad's Super Bowl XXI recording and got caught by the VHS counter

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alex_king•4d ago

TIL my $60 VCR from a garage sale in 2004 taught me more about cable than any streaming app

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martin.angela•5d ago

Thought the Nickelodeon splat logo was just a fun design until my little cousin asked why the orange was dripping

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amy975•5d ago

A guy in a Radio Shack told me my VHS tracking was off because of my TV, not my VCR, and I've been checking the tape first ever since

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grant856•7d ago

Blew $80 on a used VCR from a garage sale in Bakersfield just to watch my old Nick at Nite tapes

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piperr58•8d ago

My older brother swore the Sci-Fi Channel would never last, and I bring it up every Thanksgiving

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andrew854•9d ago

The week in 1996 when my cousin slept over and we watched 14 hours of Cartoon Network

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fisher.charlie•10d ago

Camped out in my buddy's basement in Akron during the 1996 Olympics and saw the Dream Team on his dad's illegal cable box

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jason_wood•11d ago

A guy at the laundromat called MTV's 120 Minutes "the Sunday night homework channel" and I can't shake it

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veramiller•12d ago

A 9 volt battery and a bent paperclip got my parents' old Jerrold box working again

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hernandez.morgan•15d ago

Took me 6 weeks to figure out why my VHS copy of The Goonies kept tracking bad on one TV

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the_sean•16d ago

My uncle in Buffalo said he taped over his sister's wedding for a Super Bowl, and it made me rethink my whole VHS pile

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val172•16d ago

My kid asked why I still hum the MTV theme and I didn't have a good answer

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matthew864•20d ago

Saw a post calling 90s Cartoon Network "just reruns," and I gotta push back on that

Cable TV Throwbacks

c/cable-tv-throwbacks

A place to share memories and chat about old cable TV shows, channels, and commercials from the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s.

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