ALostInquirer@lemm.ee to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · edit-26 months agoWhat produced the old dead channel tv static audiovisuals on tvs?upload.wikimedia.orgimagemessage-square21fedilinkarrow-up1106arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up1104arrow-down1imageWhat produced the old dead channel tv static audiovisuals on tvs?upload.wikimedia.orgALostInquirer@lemm.ee to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · edit-26 months agomessage-square21fedilinkfile-text
Media alt text: 3D render of old tv set with animated static on its screen, as if tuned to a dead channel.
minus-squareZagamTheVile@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up24arrow-down1·6 months ago“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.” W. Gibson. It’s wild that this makes no, or little at most, sense to entire generations now.
minus-squareDavel23@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up9·6 months agoWhat do you mean? It’s blue, right? (It’s a joke. Don’t worry, I get the original meaning, I’m old.)
minus-squareDavel23@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down1·6 months agoIn another bit of poorly-aged prediction by Gibson, Case, the main character, brings some RAM with him to sell for a quick buck on the street. How much RAM? Three entire megabytes.
minus-squareZagamTheVile@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·6 months agoYeah, but tbf, Case was pretty jacked up at the time. Also, there’s a market now for obsolete stuff.
minus-squaredylanmorgan@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·6 months agoHere’s the real question: did Gibson write Neuromancer before or after Bill Gates said no one would ever conceivably need more than 640k of RAM?
minus-squareDavel23@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 months agoI’m not sure, but I always found it mildly amusing that he wrote it on a manual typewriter.
“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.” W. Gibson.
It’s wild that this makes no, or little at most, sense to entire generations now.
What do you mean? It’s blue, right?
(It’s a joke. Don’t worry, I get the original meaning, I’m old.)
In another bit of poorly-aged prediction by Gibson, Case, the main character, brings some RAM with him to sell for a quick buck on the street. How much RAM? Three entire megabytes.
Yeah, but tbf, Case was pretty jacked up at the time.
Also, there’s a market now for obsolete stuff.
Here’s the real question: did Gibson write Neuromancer before or after Bill Gates said no one would ever conceivably need more than 640k of RAM?
I’m not sure, but I always found it mildly amusing that he wrote it on a manual typewriter.