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Hack the Gibson (lemmy.world)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/memes@lemmy.world
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[–] 68 points 5 months ago (9 children)

Yall had color static? I only remember seeing black and white static.

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  • [–] 44 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    You could get color if a weak signal drifted in (and had a color TV), but generally it was black and white. OP needs to take that pixelated mess back and fix it.

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    I had a tv that output static with the colors when signal was missing, it did NOT make the fuzz sound tho.

    This was the early 90s

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    I think early digital may have done that, but not analog.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    For the tv we had my recollection was that it only happened when there was no input plugged into the UHF.

    Or if the Nintendo inline was plugged in and the Nintendo was off, and no other input.

    We had cable since that late 80s so I don’t recall ever dealing with signal loss beyond VH1 becoming scrambled at 9:30 for the playboy channel.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago

    Gibson talks about this in his prologue, and other anachronisms in Neuromancer (specifically his lack of imagination regarding phones)—he was envisioning the dull grey of a dead tv signal of his childhood, not the crazy black and white static of the late 20th and early 21st century; but the sentiment tracks even though he probably wasn’t event thinking that about any of the implications, given his displeasure of even being lumped in with cyberpunk as a genre (which I think is really confoundedly stupid on his part).

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