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.
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.
People born before 2000 think older technology just evaporated the minute the millenium ticked over.
Like when the black and white world suddenly got colorized! My grandpap told me about them old days - when the lawn, the sidewalk and the sky were just different shades of gray.
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Grandpa was telling you about 50 shades of grey?
Grandpa knew things. Apparently so did grandma.
I think they call it “analog horror noise” now, along with vhs cassettes.
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Feel the passage of time XD
2001 here literally grew up with CRT static, you have your years a bit off there.
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.
Do you think CRTs just magically disappeared after the turn of the millennium?
No, I just couldn’t remember exactly when. And as another commenter pointed out, what I should have said was analog TV’s.
They lied to us. The real Y2K was the CRT rapture.
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.
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
CRTs was in use well into the 2000s
Well, if they had watched any HBO show, they kind of saw it !
