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The static on old CRT TVs with rabbit ears was the cosmic microwave background. No one in the last 25 years has ever seen it.

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[-] apemint@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Well, not really. The cosmic microwave background radiation was a tiny fraction of that noise. What everyone saw was mostly thermal noise generated by the amplifier circuit inside the TV.

[-] bonn2@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

2001 here literally grew up with CRT static, you have your years a bit off there.

[-] TwanHE@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I was about to say, i think we had a CRT till about 2010. My grandma still has one upstairs so even my youngest cousins still grew up with it.

[-] 9point6@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

No one in the last 25 years has ever seen it.

I mean you can still find a CRT today and turn it on if you like, they're less common for sure, but they're still around if you're looking for one

[-] Screen_Shatter@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I bought a plasma in 2009 that would show static if I turned it to cable channels without cable plugged in. Plasmas were susceptible to burn in and since I would game a lot I could see health bars etc start to burn in after a while. Whenever that would happen I would turn it to the static screen - making each pixel flip from one end of the spectrum to the other rapidly like that would actually help remove the burn in.

[-] SlimeKnight@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

I think they call it "analog horror noise" now, along with vhs cassettes.

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Feel the passage of time XD

[-] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

Do you think CRTs just magically disappeared after the turn of the millennium?

[-] Hobbes@startrek.website 1 points 1 month ago

No, I just couldn't remember exactly when. And as another commenter pointed out, what I should have said was analog TV's.

[-] i_dont_want_to@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 month ago

They lied to us. The real Y2K was the CRT rapture.

[-] pocker_machine@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

Well, if they had watched any HBO show, they kind of saw it !

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