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ah yes, spice
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.
And here I just had Blue Nuit
You fool, mother could also just hit "last" and catch you in both deceit AND boobin
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.
60 and 59, bro 😎
Cinemax taught me how to work a VCR
...and the mirror on the bedroom door set so that I could see who's coming down the hall.
But if you could see them, they could see you ...
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.
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 1.5 hour long naked lesbian makeout to a single scene 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.)
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.
Told my mom we should keep Cinemax because they had good movies coming up.
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 could 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 😑
This makes me realize if I pick a code it had to start with a 9
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.
I did the Wipeout Pure exploit in the days before the PSP had a real browser, it was AMAZING.
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.
That's way more dedication to a nut then I've ever had
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....
Assuming there even was a nut…
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.
Should have bought a subscription to Radio and Electronics. I built a descrambler using their schematics.
Holy crap some of it still exists. https://schematicsforfree.com/files/Video/Circuits/Descrambling/1984-02%20Analog%20Cable%20TV%20Descramblng%20.pdf
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.
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.
Its amazing I didn't end up in jail. I built a few of the descramblers and worst of all ended up with a 300 baud modem when the local chevrolet place Threw out a bunch of 'junk'. It was a non hayes bell modem and a pain in the ass to use but I would have taken a bullet for it. I built a blue box and later a black box. Then I got busy with free phone calls. Phreaking BBS's all over with great plans on taking control of the world around you. I still remember the date that they replaced the old analog switch in my town.
I hear phreaking stories and I'm sad I was born a decade too late :(
I was kinda sad I was an adult when the hacking PBX's were a thing in the 90's. I kept up with that culture and those kids were having a great time taking over corporate phone systems and night and socializing. I still have a habit every now and then of picking up a random courtesy phone and finding the paging extension. I know it marks me as a huge nerd but I had a small handheld dtmf tone generator in my pocket everywhere I went up until I got married. I know a lot of default passwords used by systems. Most library PC's and hotel business centers are depressingly easy to get into to. All due to a fear many tiny techs have of changing a default password.
Taking over corporate phone systems... what? Care to elaborate?
For a period of time in the 90's you could get access to phone systems remotely. Kids and some adults were using them as hangouts of a sort and there was a lot of them that were used to jump into the net for free. I read about it more than experiencing it. Like I said I had grown up and it was no longer the draw it once was.
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