Just 6.4% of Americans had cable TV by 1968, but that figure reached a full 62.4% by 1994. In those hallowed days, cable television was delivered as analog signals sent via coaxial cable runs.

An input socket on a device that connects to a coaxial cable. It often refers to early TV sets that accepted signals from an antenna or VCR only via a coaxial cable. Modern TVs have coax inputs ...