It actually was a pretty rapid switch where all the CRTs disappeared
Comment on People born after 2000 have never seen the cosmic microwave background on their TV set.
JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Do you think CRTs just magically disappeared after the turn of the millennium?
criitz@reddthat.com 2 months ago
i_dont_want_to@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
They lied to us. The real Y2K was the CRT rapture.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 months ago
I think they’re more likely to have been scrapped than other old tech.
They’re bulky, and mine was too heavy to get out in the attic. I still have my ZX Spectrum and Amiga, but the CRT needed for lightgun games is long gone.
dan1101@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Well to be fair at some point most/all CRTs showed a blue screen instead of static. So it’s possible someone born in 2000 never saw the snowy display.
Allero@lemmy.today 2 months ago
As someone born in 2000, I’ve personally seen it and I think most people around me did. Maybe someone didn’t, though.
Hobbes@startrek.website 2 months ago
No, I just couldn’t remember exactly when. And as another commenter pointed out, what I should have said was analog TV’s.
billwashere@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Don’t you still see this when using an OTA ATSC tuner on a newer LCD display? I thought this was a function of the signal generation and not the display technologies.