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Quoted from cottonm4:Tht stuff that is on your screen we called "snow".
Yeah. It was the original "white noise" that you fell asleep to, and woke up with, with potato chip crumbs all over your chest.
Quoted from cottonm4:how long did it take for your brother to figure out he was being had
Steve Jobs partner Steve Wozniak...
"Wozniak built [a pocket device] that could emit TV signals. He would take it to a room where a group of people were watching TV, such as in a dorm, and secretly press the button so that the screen would get fuzzy with static. When someone got up and whacked the set, Wozniak would let go of the button and the picture would clear up...Eventually he would make people think they had to hold the antenna while standing on one foot or touching the top of the set."
https://www.businessinsider.com/steve-jobs-wozniak-pranks-2011-10
My son made one of these gizmos in science club when he was kid. He would use it on our hearing-impaired neighbor who would play obnoxious TV shows real loud on his patio. LMAO off every time. Great entertainment.
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