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he probably meant old school CRT, which did indeed had a bluish tint.
by java-man 8y ago
he probably meant old school CRT, which did indeed had a bluish tint.
- cannam 8y ago"I actually composed that first image with black and white video static of my childhood in mind, sodium silvery and almost painful" (https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/163304/what-color-was-the-sky-above-the-port-in-neuromancer/163310 https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/163304/what-color-...) - so it was intended (even if not necessarily read) as grey static at the time. I always assumed the reference was to the sky being full of debris which reflected light, like a chaotic horizon-spanning disco ball.
- orev 8y agoNo, it did not mean blue or any kind of blue tint. He meant gray. And I can’t say that any CRT I saw had a tint towards any color specifically.
- baking 8y agoIt is kind of a well-known metaphor that if you walked through a neighborhood at night you could see the bluish tint from the TVs of families watching in darkened rooms. (At least before color television https://lightinganalysts.com/blue-light-hazards-and-television/ https://lightinganalysts.com/blue-light-hazards-and-televisi...)