People born after 2000 have never seen the cosmic microwave background on their TV set.

Hobbes@startrek.website to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world – 529 points –

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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People born before 2000 think older technology just evaporated the minute the millenium ticked over.

Like when the black and white world suddenly got colorized! My grandpap told me about them old days - when the lawn, the sidewalk and the sky were just different shades of gray.

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