This meme is over a year old but I don't think I've posted it here before.

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[–] 53 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Fun fact, when he originally wrote this, he was thinking of dead air during the 60s, where it was just a greyish wash, not the more salt and pepper static of the 80s

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  • [–] 32 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    I’m glad someone else thought about this!!

    William Gibson himself talks about this in the retrospective introduction to Neuromancer.

    It took at least a decade for me to realize that many of my readers, even in 1984, could never have experienced Neuromancer’s opening line as I’d intended them to. I’d actually composed that first image with the black-and-white video-static of my childhood in mind, sodium-silvery and almost painful—a whopping anachronism, right at the very start of my career in the imaginary future.

    The color static of the image above is predictably incorrect.

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  • [–] 45 points 2 months ago*

    Or this

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    When YT decides this channel isn’t bringing enough ad revenue.

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    thought so. i never finished it! but i did read a few chapters.

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    2028 the sky will be ads for betting sites.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago

    my dumb tv just says "no hdmi input detected"

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    even the memes making fun of it are too modern. the static was pretty much greyscale on a crt in the 80s.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago*

    I put pen to paper when I was younger and described the rain as "the colour of computer shells".

    Slightly different setting if the reader had a Macbook, an iMac g3, or a Macintosh.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    You're good.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    The 2025 is definitely the most accurate for a cyberpunk setting

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    I prefer the first.

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