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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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[–] JusticeForPorygon 75 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

Do you think CRTs just magically disappeared after the turn of the millennium?

[–] billwashere 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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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