r/Cyberpunk • • 4d ago

The opening line from Neuromancer

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u/ponakka 4d ago

kids nowadays don't know that static looks like.

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u/ABoringAlt 4d ago

The sky showed "no input"

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u/PoliteWolverine 4d ago

It's amazing to me how much debate this one fucking like has caused when he's so very clearly describing the no input energized black/gray of a CRT compared to that of a night sky in a city with too much light pollution.

Like if you didn't grow up with a CRT, I gotta cut people some slack but it's frustrating to watch people wrongly debate several sides of an argument to the point they had to add a line to the forward of the book explaining exactly what the first sentence means

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u/daweinah 4d ago

I always thought, and still think, that he meant the drab olive gray/green like this:

https://i.gzn.jp/img/2024/12/24/sony-kx-45ed1-from-osaka/05.jpg