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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€“] Sylvartas@lemmy.world 5 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Also, a lot of kids don't have the slightest idea of what the "save" icon in their apps represents. They just know it's the save icon because it's everywhere

[โ€“] dch82@lemmy.zip 3 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

To be fair though, many kids nowadays have never seen a save icon as autosave is now practically everywhere. For example take anything on an iPad or other touch device.