Comment on Everything was indeed brown.
Jesus_666@lemmy.world 16 hours agoIn the 80s the sky was the color of a dead TV channel and it was overcast.
In the 00s the sky was the color of a dead TV channel and it was clear.
Today nobody knows what a dead TV channel is supposed to look like.
Zanshi@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Today dead channels are either blue or black with a floating “no signal” because the signal is not analog anymore
Jesus_666@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Honestly, given that TV viewership is falling and people are increasingly using on-demand services instead of tuning in, I’d argue that 404 error pages and NXDOMAIN browser error pages are in the process of replacing the dead channel conceptually.