• samus12345@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    The first one is amusingly obsolete on several levels. If Sluggo had a device with internet he’d have something to read without having to go anywhere, and of course the strip isn’t being displayed on paper.

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      4 months ago

      That reminds me of the weird way the opening of William Gibson’s novel Neuromancer has become both obsolete while also taking on a completely different meaning-

      The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel

      He wrote it in the 80s, so he meant grey and snowy. Now it would mean a blue sky.

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        4 months ago

        I’m old, so I envision the static first. I’m actually curious how many young’ns would get what he meant, since static is still commonly depicted in cartoons and games.

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          Out not-that-old Sharp tv does fake static on unused HDMI sources. I think I prefer blue though, the static gives me PTSD from being a kid without cable TV living in the woods in the 80s.