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No, it's black/white/grey and cloudy. Maybe you're thinking of modern televisions that cut out to a solid color screen, usually blue by default?
by nsxwolf 11y ago
No, it's black/white/grey and cloudy. Maybe you're thinking of modern televisions that cut out to a solid color screen, usually blue by default?
- j_s 11y agoAgreed, the static was back in the good old CRT days: https://www.google.com/search?q=tv+static&tbm=isch https://www.google.com/search?q=tv+static&tbm=isch
- DanBC 11y agojgramhamc is referencing a William Gibson line from a cyberpunk book. The line is dated because kids think an untuned TV channel is blue. Old people[1] like us recognise the metaphor[2] for what it is. Other perhaps anacronistic bits in the book include people in cabs getting faxes sent to the cab which are printed on cheap paper. (Although I prefer to think that this is a description of an alternate future, not our own future extrapolated, which neatly does away with worries about fax paper). This comment is a long way of saying ThatsTheJoke.png [1] sorry jgrahamc! [2] or analogy.