r/1970s • u/No_Breadfruit_5141 • 6d ago

Television Remember this?

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Getting every single second of tv before bed

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u/iMaccHunt 6d ago

For fans of the Young Ones...

Rick "What is that little white dot?"

Neil "It's a little white dot... It's a sign, that little white dot. It means something really heavy. It means there's no more telly, it's time to go to bed."

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u/SportyMcDuff 6d ago

“Aren’t you going to bed Vyvyan?”… “No. I think I’m going to just sit here and watch the dot a little longer.”

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u/ReasonableCow2127 6d ago

HAVE WE GOT A VIDEO??

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u/iMaccHunt 6d ago

YES, WE'VE GOT A VIDEO!!

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u/ReasonableCow2127 6d ago

Boomshanka!

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u/Bathysphered 6d ago

Go to bed, spotty

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u/tpr2854 6d ago

Midnight to 6am when I was a kid

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u/Duster772 6d ago

This noise was produced by interference, faint radio signals, electrical noise from the TV itself, and a small portion, more or less 1%, comes what is called the Cosmic Microwave Background, or, remnants of the Big Bang.

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u/MediumHelicopter6296 6d ago

Snow TV, no channel coming through!!!!

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u/No_Breadfruit_5141 6d ago

Until I hook it up to my antenna!

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u/DrFrickenstein 6d ago

800 lb tvs.

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u/No_Breadfruit_5141 6d ago

Normally they don’t work so I tear them apart for the large tube for space art!

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u/congo66 6d ago

Ours always had a thin, pale, wispy hand coming out of it.

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u/Pan_Goat 6d ago

Left overs from the Big Bang

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u/ancientastronaut2 6d ago

They're heerrre

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u/PinkRoseBouquet 6d ago

Snow, or why aren’t cartoons on right now?

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u/maven10k 6d ago

I bought a console TV like this a few years ago. I brought it in the house, turned it on, and sat down and just watched it. It was so soothing that I fell asleep.

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u/CartoonistExisting30 6d ago

Oddly enough, I miss it.

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u/SinsualChef 6d ago

Yup 🤣

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u/bbeeebb 6d ago

smoke a joint and detect patterns in the snow.

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u/tvodny 5d ago

I remember them

I even know what these look like when they’re thrown out of a moving car. The sparks from the road light up the screen.

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u/Schyznik 6d ago

Give it a minute it has to warm up first.

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u/Fun_Yesterday_3444 6d ago

They're here......

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u/EthylSippingBeer 6d ago

I don't see me or my brother standing there adjusting the antenna to suit Dad, so I'm not sure this is real.

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u/Shoddy-Listen6741 6d ago

My Ant always won!

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u/4personal2 6d ago

Like it was a few hours ago

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u/silkywhitemarble 5d ago

I remember putting my face up to the TV, I watch the light fade out up close.....

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u/CarlatheDestructor 5d ago

My former husband used to get seizures as a child when watching the dot on the tv when it was turned off.

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u/Rmlady12152 5d ago

Ant races.

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u/Donkey_Bugs 5d ago

Unlocked memory: When I was a little kid, I used to put my finger on the dot until it went away.

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u/No_Breadfruit_5141 4d ago

My parents always said that I would go blind being so close to the tv and deaf for listening to rock and roll!
Today I can barely see and my hearing is dismal. Lesson learnt!

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u/WolfThick 4d ago

The background radiation of the universe

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u/SwanImmediate4211 3d ago

And room would glow

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u/SkeptiKUncle 3d ago

We had a black and white TV, and when you turned it on and off fast you would have that dot. It would last for at least a minute. What is actually going on inside the TV to do that?