People born after 2000 have never seen the cosmic microwave background on their TV set. - eviltoast

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.

  • entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 month ago

    Yeah, for instance the semi-ubiquitous “small TV with a vhs player built in” that was in a ton of mini-vans and kids’ rooms well into the early 2000s only supported analog cable/antenna signals, so it would give the black and white static when there was no signal.