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TacticalCoderyesterday at 7:27 PM2 repliesview on HN

> That came very handy to many a teenager on late Saturday evenings.

GP is referring to Canal+ who'd play that one weekly porn movie on saturday evening.

Us kids from the eighties could watch like 30 seconds unencrypted, than the scrambling would start.

We'd still watch the movie ; )


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amiga386yesterday at 8:42 PM

In the UK we had the Red Triangle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_triangle_(Channel_4) where we stayed up late for the hope of some sexy fun times, and we were exposed to culture and not nearly as much nudity as we had hoped for.

koolbayesterday at 8:03 PM

> GP is referring to Canal+ who'd play that one weekly porn movie on saturday evening.

As an Anglophone it counts as taking a 1-credit foreign language class.