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[Meme] The sky above the port...

a month ago by Hammerjack to c/cyberpunk

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This meme is over a year old but I don't think I've posted it here before.

xkbx 53 points a month ago

Fun fact, when he originally wrote this, he was thinking of dead air during the 60s, where it was just a greyish wash, not the more salt and pepper static of the 80s

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calliope 31 points a month ago

I’m glad someone else thought about this!!

William Gibson himself talks about this in the retrospective introduction to Neuromancer.

It took at least a decade for me to realize that many of my readers, even in 1984, could never have experienced Neuromancer’s opening line as I’d intended them to. I’d actually composed that first image with the black-and-white video-static of my childhood in mind, sodium-silvery and almost painful—a whopping anachronism, right at the very start of my career in the imaginary future.

The color static of the image above is predictably incorrect.

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Hamartiogonic 1 point a month ago

Why was it grey instead of just noise?

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Hamartiogonic 45 points a month ago

Or this

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When YT decides this channel isn’t bringing enough ad revenue.

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HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 15 points a month ago

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bowsertattoo 14 points a month ago

this is gibson right?

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ehxor 19 points a month ago

First line in Neuromancer

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bowsertattoo 4 points a month ago

thought so. i never finished it! but i did read a few chapters.

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Damage 4 points a month ago

very sloggy

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bowsertattoo 2 points a month ago

sloggy?

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agentTeiko 10 points a month ago

2028 the sky will be ads for betting sites.

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Kangae_Hishiryo 1 point a month ago

Don't give them ideas... Please... 😰

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bowsertattoo 8 points a month ago

my dumb tv just says "no hdmi input detected"

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mrsemi 6 points a month ago

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Etterra 6 points a month ago

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Amuro_eat 4 points a month ago

The 2025 is definitely the most accurate for a cyberpunk setting

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spacegoat 3 points a month ago

It’s the big bang’s fart

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ogrrr 3 points a month ago

I put pen to paper when I was younger and described the rain as "the colour of computer shells".

Slightly different setting if the reader had a Macbook, an iMac g3, or a Macintosh.

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mavu 3 points a month ago

even the memes making fun of it are too modern. the static was pretty much greyscale on a crt in the 80s.

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Skullgrid 2 points a month ago

You're good.

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BuboScandiacus 1 point a month ago

All work

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ArmchairAce1944 1 point a month ago

I prefer the first.

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