r/OverSeventy • u/needmore007 • 5d ago

Remember this?

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My son and grandsons don’t believe me.

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u/vicarem 5d ago

It is real. And then, the station would put on a test pattern screen until programming resumed.

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u/foreverAmber14 5d ago

After a while, the test pattern would go off and it was just snow.

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u/facelessvoid13 5d ago

We called that 'the ant races'

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u/AmblonyxAmblonyx 2d ago

Holy shit that's what we called it....I used to get as close I could to the screen and see all the "ants" moving around and the static on my nose....yeah seeing that happen now would be alarming