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.
While I’ve grown up with CRTs (90’s kid) I’ve never seen the actual static in real life, only simulations.
I don’t think channels ever went out, and if the TV was listening to a connection that didn’t give anything it just shone bright blue.
2007er here, I grew up with a CRT as the TV in our second living room, I’d occasionally watch stuff like Bob the builder and others, but since it was all on analog tv, channels started displaying lots of static, pretty much only like 2 or 3 channels were working last I saw.
Also we had that CRT TV until 2018, then chucked it in the store room, then threw it out in 2020, I kinda miss it, kinda don’t, idk.
People born after 2000 can see it on their phones, much more clearly:
You mean scrambled porn, right?
uhhh, yes i have? I’m pretty sure some of my younger cousins have lol
