#max headroom incident
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davros42 · 1 year ago
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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.
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fridaycarnage · 4 months ago
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whystudios · 4 months ago
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thefoilguy · 1 year ago
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Max Headroom - Aluminum Foil Sculpture
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squishy-teeth · 6 months ago
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WAS THAT THE HIJACK OF 87?!?!?!?! catch fhe wave more like catch the BUTT
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downthegenderriver · 10 months ago
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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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viewfromthelake · 8 months ago
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"MEEEOOOWWWWWW, CHUCK SWIRSKY'S A FRICKIN' LIBERALLLL MEOOWWWWWW"
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gaykarstaagforever · 11 months ago
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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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sensitiveartisttypes · 1 year ago
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oprah sinfree - headroom
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judas-isariot · 1 year ago
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pleotca · 2 years ago
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Mark my words: This year we're gonna find out who this was
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memeslover · 2 years ago
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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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aehno · 13 days ago
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“bend over bitch” is definitely my favorite quote in all of max headroom history
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dzchugem · 10 months ago
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Hatsune Miku incident
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fullyfazed · 1 year ago
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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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schnuffel-danny · 6 months ago
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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.....
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