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.

  • anomnom@sh.itjust.works
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    1 month ago

    Cheap led tvs were like 1/5 the cost of Analog TVs. The digital switch over really finished them off too.

    Really it’s the size/price that did it though. My buddy paid I think $3k for a maybe 40” Trinitron in 99-2000. It probably weighed 200lbs. Looked amazing at the time but it was probably only months before big leds came out. Plasma might have been a thing then but we’re like $10k+