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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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[โ€“] Etterra@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 18 hours ago

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