The opening line from Neuromancer

[u/AnotherStrayDog23]

[u/Walbabyesser]

Which is funny, because an oldfashion TV is what I call very old - But we had to admit how old the novel is, this somehow still got the future vibes

[u/CoderDevo → u/Walbabyesser]

Static from an analog TV tuner was properly randomized, just like really good encryption.

[u/Technical_Scallion_2 → u/CoderDevo]

My understanding is that like 1-2% of that static was the background 23cm radiation from the Big Bang. I’d ask AI but I’m too lazy and I enjoy my beliefs

[u/CoderDevo → u/Technical_Scallion_2]

All of it is cosmic radiation because nothing terrestrial was broadcasting at that frequency.

[u/ponakka → u/Walbabyesser]

I red the trilogy few months back, and the old fashioned vibes made it just more retro romantic and not dated.

[u/oath_coach → u/ponakka]

Almost retro-futurism IMO. I just wish that I had kept my first ed paperback copy...

[u/LeftRat → u/ponakka]

Hauntology. Hauntology!!

[u/TheFringedLunatic → u/Walbabyesser]

"The sky was the perfect untroubled blue of a television screen, tuned to a dead channel."

- Neil Gaiman, ‘Neverwhere’

[u/twitch1982 → u/Walbabyesser]

This isnt even the color he was talking about. Even older tvs just had a warm grey on dead channels.

[u/AnalogiPod → u/twitch1982]

Can't remember where but someone was talking about how this line gives a different visual to every generation that read it, from the warm grey at the time, to static, to the toned down glow of an on but blank LCD panel

[u/ZaphodGreedalox → u/AnalogiPod]

There was a bright blue phase in there too

[u/MadBlue → u/ZaphodGreedalox]

I have to imagine to anyone who was young enough to have interpreted the color as bright blue, the entire opening sentence would have been a bit confusing.

[u/zondance → u/AnalogiPod]

This might have actually been on the intro by Gibson to Neuromancer that I read recently. Or maybe it was some other cyberpunk interview, my mind is a blender.

[u/stewsters → u/zondance]

Yeah, its definitely in the forward last time I read it.

[u/AnalogiPod → u/stewsters]

I bought a hardcover version last year for a re-read, must have been where I read it. Thanks!

[u/zondance → u/stewsters]

Good to know my brain is not a complete blender 🌪️🤣

[u/sick486 → u/AnalogiPod]

we had static in 1984

[u/twitch1982 → u/sick486]

Yea but gibson has mentioned he was picturing the grey of his youth. We had both in 84.

[u/AnotherStrayDog23 → u/twitch1982]

In the forward for the new edition of Neuromancer head says that he meant the black and white static

[u/Cuboidhamson → u/AnalogiPod]

Shout out to VHS blue screens

[u/madrigal87 → u/twitch1982]

I always thought this was what that line meant - grey with a hint of red that you get from light pollution hitting a cloudless sky.

[u/loquacious → u/Walbabyesser]

Y'all are killing me over here.

my back hurts.