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People born after 2000 have never seen the cosmic microwave background on their TV set. (startrek.website)
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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.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

I was born in the 90s, my brothers were born in the early 2000s. We had a CRT into the early 2010s . Maybe people who weren't poor haven't seen real TV static but even then I doubt it. Hell, remember those god awful "flat screen" CRTs? My old station still had one of those that we used to watch TV on in 2018-19. It's probably still there lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I actually liked the flat screen crts. I have a 1080p flatscreen crt and I love it. Can’t use it though because I’m scared my kids will get crushed by it.

[–] possiblylinux127 3 points 9 hours ago

When I was growing up the cat used to interact with the TV. It was on the floor for a while so it was fun.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago

Yep, my family had a CRT that we used until sometime around 2015.