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

JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• billwashere@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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• criitz@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It actually was a pretty rapid switch where all the CRTs disappeared

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• i_dont_want_to@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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  • Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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• dan1101@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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  • Allero@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    As someone born in 2000, I’ve personally seen it and I think most people around me did. Maybe someone didn’t, though.

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• Hobbes@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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