This month marks the 37th anniversary of the "Max Headroom Incident". #themaxheadroomincident #maxheadroom #videohijack #tvvideopirate #wgnchicago #wttwchicago #maxheadroomsignalhijacking #signalhijack #maxheadroomprank #1987tv #november1987 | Night Flight

Yet, though it is now considered something of a relic, something so retro ‘80s that to reference it is almost a cliché, the concept of Max Headroom was so far ahead of its time that it actually foretold our present-day technological lifestyle. So, how did that happen? How did a character that was literally created to waste time between music videos become a symbol of the decade, then quickly die a very swift death, yet still manage to predict the future we are currently living in? | Nostalgia: 9

THE MAX HEADROOM INCIDENT. November 22nd, 1987 was a pretty normal evening for television viewers in Chicago. That night, like every night, Dan Roan was covering sports on WGN-TV, Channel 9. Then suddenly, the signal was disrupted and screens across the city cut to black. Engineers at WGN-TV thought their transmitters were failing. They weren't. A few seconds later, something crazy happened. WGN's broadcast signal had been hijacked in what is now known as "The Max Headroom Incident". WGN-TV was

The Max Headroom Incident: In 1987, two TV broadcasts in Chicago were hijacked by a masked figure no one has ever identified. Viewers watched in confusion as their screens were overtaken by something bizarre, unsettling—and totally unexplained. It only lasted a minute… but decades later, no one knows who did it or how. The Max Headroom Incident remains one of the strangest unsolved hacks in broadcast history. Music: "Send Me An Angel" - Real Life. #unsolvedmystery #UnsolvedMysteries #unsolved #u