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Happy "Max Headroom Incident" Day to all who celebrate.
On November 22, 1987 television signals in Chicago were interrupted twice by an unknown person in a Max Headroom mask.
(Kids, ask your grandparents about Max Headroom)
The first time, WGN Channel 9's 9 PM news was interrupted for about 17 seconds before WGN's engineers got control of their signal back.
The second time, it was WTTW Channel 11's turn. The PBS station's airing of the classic Doctor Who episode The Horror of Fang Rock was interrupted with the clip above.
Those responsible were never caught and has since become a legendary moment in piracy/hacking.
#max headroom#max headroom incident#1987#WGN#WTTV#Doctor Who#Horror of Fang Rock#Chicago#pirate television#piracy#hacking#vintage media#november 22
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#ok sory I know I already drew this but I didn’t like how I did it before#max headroom#max headroom incident#old internet
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#lasagna cat#i cant sleep#analog horror#liminal spaces#jack stauber#arg#weirdcore#the mandela catalogue#icebergs#boisvert#candle cove#local 58#the backrooms#salad fingers#OwO#skinamarink#i feel fantastic#pizza time pizza#petscop#hi im marry marry#dhmis#max headroom incident#username 666#old youtube#tribute#Youtube#alternative reality game
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Max Headroom - Aluminum Foil Sculpture
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WAS THAT THE HIJACK OF 87?!?!?!?! catch fhe wave more like catch the BUTT
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Hazbin hotel AU where everything is the same but Alastor went up to the living world in the 80s and got so pissed at how prominent televisions were he did the max headroom incident then went straight back to hell
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"MEEEOOOWWWWWW, CHUCK SWIRSKY'S A FRICKIN' LIBERALLLL MEOOWWWWWW"
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Before YouTube, we had no way to show our bare ass getting hit by a fly-swatter except by hacking a Chicago television station for 2 minutes.
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#i love how they hijacked the signal yet had basically no plan for what to do with it#so like us#max headroom incident#1980s#Youtube
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oprah sinfree - headroom
#sensitive artist types#oprah sinfree#chicago#esoteric#esoteric dance#industrial#underground music#techno#soundcloud#diy#goth chicago#goth house#chicagoland#cook county#location genre#SoundCloud#max headroom#max headroom incident#victory auto wreckers#illinois
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Mark my words: This year we're gonna find out who this was
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Okay so I just now discovered that the person who was behind the max headroom second hijacking the part where there was a woman with him he held his mask with his hand and I saw from the footage that he had brown colored hair but I saw this for a split second.
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“bend over bitch” is definitely my favorite quote in all of max headroom history
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Hatsune Miku incident
#hatsune miku#miku miku oo ee oo#your love is fading#max headroom#max headroom pirating incident#creepypasta#creepy art#creepycore#spooky
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Me and my parents watching the Mystery Files season finale vs when one of the suspects is the radio host my mom listened to in high school
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I hate being lazy when it comes to creating original stuff, because I'm always several years early to trends, but I never have anything to show for it!!! And then when I finally thing "Ok, maybe I could make that thing now" SUDDENLY the genre of idea I had BLOWS UP and nothing I make will ever live up to the hype xD maybe it's good tbh.... I love being lazy <3 I hope my uncanny ability to predict online trends keeps me unmotivated to create anything forever till the end of time, because I honestly am totally incapable to sticking to a single project :,D and I'd get bored so fast.....
#I was here first for liminal spaces#years before the term liminal spaces became common internet lingo#SAME WITH ANALOG HORROR#I HAD AN ANALOG HORROR SERIES PLANNED OUT#BEFORE THE TERM ANALOG HORROR EVEN EXISTED#THAT IDEA IS SO OLD THAT MY MAIN/ONLY INSPIRATIONS WERE THE WYOMING INCIDENT AND THE MAX HEADROOM HIJACKING#THE CURRENT ANALOG HORROR KIDDOS DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT EITHER OF THOSE ARE#ALL THEY KNOW IS WALTEN FILES AND WHATEVER THAT OTHER ONE IS CALLED#I also had a planned series of haunted flash games#BEFORE THEY EVEN ANNOUNCED FLASH WOULD EVER SHUT DOWN#it's genuinely so funny#if I ever get another original series idea I'll post it here and everyone is encouraged to steal it#it might be the next big thing#you could get a movie deal from my text posts
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