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

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No, I just couldn’t remember exactly when. And as another commenter pointed out, what I should have said was analog TV’s.

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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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They lied to us. The real Y2K was the CRT rapture.

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I think they’re more likely to have been scrapped than other old tech.

They’re bulky, and mine was too heavy to get out in the attic. I still have my ZX Spectrum and Amiga, but the CRT needed for lightgun games is long gone.

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Well to be fair at some point most/all CRTs showed a blue screen instead of static. So it’s possible someone born in 2000 never saw the snowy display.

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As someone born in 2000, I’ve personally seen it and I think most people around me did. Maybe someone didn’t, though.

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It actually was a pretty rapid switch where all the CRTs disappeared

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they have to watch HBO shows to compensate

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Surely you mean the much worse “Max”.

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Only the HBO shows on Max have the static. If you watch the garbage reality shows it isn’t there.

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Logo still shows HBO for that intro though

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I had a CRT as our family’s main TV until 2017

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A high end CRT is a solid choice and was hard to replicate until recently.

Part of me wishes they still made them.

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People born after 2000 can see it on their phones, much more clearly:

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My mother had one of these. I got to use it as a hand-me-down as a teenager because my mother was abusive AF.

For clarity, the subject of the TV wasn’t the abusive part. Her rationale of “I didn’t have one when I was a kid so you don’t get to have one while you’re a kid” was. It didn’t apply just to the TV.

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Same lol. Only 3 channels until I was 12 or so and no internet in the house until I was 15 or 16.

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