Started reading the Sprawl trilogy (Neuromancer).
“The sky above the port was the color of television, turned to a dead channel.”
I wonder how many people are too young to understand the very first sentence.
“The sky above the port was the color of television, turned to a dead channel.”
I wonder how many people are too young to understand the very first sentence.
@shibayashi why, it's easy to understand that it means bright blue
@lain wait, are you fucking with me? I always had this image in mind. Now I don’t know what’s the truth anymore.
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Yeah, it was also called staticy snowy... Sometimes you could hear a show and have ghostly imagery...
LOL.. yeah
But we can still strangle someone with a phone cord... It's just not curly any more... Hehhe.
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Fundamentally, the question is whether you're old enough to have strong memories of TVs from before they had the processing power to substitute a blue fill when failing to sync with an NTSC/PAL signal's timing.
@ssokolow @randynose @shibayashi lol, I have memories of black and white TV, even
I'm old enough to recall when they used to use smoke signals....
