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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My mother had one of these. I got to use it as a hand-me-down as a teenager because my mother was abusive AF.

For clarity, the subject of the TV wasn’t the abusive part. Her rationale of “I didn’t have one when I was a kid so you don’t get to have one while you’re a kid” was. It didn’t apply just to the TV.

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Same lol. Only 3 channels until I was 12 or so and no internet in the house until I was 15 or 16.

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