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Original Max Headroom TV signal hack on 22 November 1987

submitted by arvana

1 decade 7 years 1 month ago

Nobody knows who did it, or how, but in 1987 somebody hacked the PBS transmission in Chicago, overriding the Doctor Who broadcast with a weird Max Headroom act. This is the entire original; it remains an icon to hackers everywhere. Via www.damninteresting.com

He says:

"He's a freaky nerd!"

"This guy's better than Chuck Swirsky." (a WGN-TV sportscaster at the time)

"Oh Jesus!"

"Catch the wave." (a reference to the New Coke marketing slogan)

"Your love is fading."

(hums the theme song to the 1959 TV series "Clutch Cargo")

"I stole CBS."

(unintelligible)

"Oh, I just made a giant masterpiece printed all over the greatest world newspaper nerds."

"My brother is wearing the other one."

"It's dirty."

"They're coming to get me!"

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I remember watching this same video on the sift before and I think this is the same as here (Though it is dead now) : http://www.videosift.com/video/80s-Hacker-Guy-in-Max-Headroom-mask-takes-over-PBS-show

Hmm... I just deaded the other one; I'll leave this one up until the other one gets fixed.

20 years ago today!
Someone should promote the old one when it gets fixed.
I am still a day away...

Here is the Wikipedia entry on the incident:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Headroom_pirating_incident

dupe *discard

Discarding this post - discard requested by member Grimm.

OK, I'll make this the subtitled version then.

*save

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