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Tell me what it means (lemm.ee)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/memes

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[–] Passerby6497 32 points 9 months ago (3 children)

OTA TV stations used to have an end to their broadcast day, and they'd play the national anthem before going to color bars until morning.

[–] Crashumbc 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Or just static

[–] mods_are_assholes 3 points 9 months ago

I kind of miss actual TV static, it was a reflection of the cosmic microwave background radiation and truly random if anything in this universe can be. Nowadays when people want to imitate static for a visual style, it's always like a crisp QR pattern of semi repeating pixels.

and I'm like 'It doesn't look like that at all!'

[–] mods_are_assholes 3 points 9 months ago

I even lived through the end of that period and sometimes wonder if I hallucinated it lol.

Like, a channel can even go off the air? Why?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Now we'd find that kind of thing creepy and call it "analog horror" maybe. XD