This article was inspired by a technical error I can't replicate through writing, nor refer to in official documentation (unless I missed something ). The overhead digital projector in one of the classrooms I attend, in between displaying its computer signal and a neutral, soothing blue screen displayed something curiously familiar: tv static. you may be familiar... For a brief instant, the "snow" felt oddly comforting. It made me think of old movies in the basements of old houses. It reminded me that Hunter Thompson liked to fall asleep to white noise (white noise, side note, actually having some therapeutic benefit? ). It made me wonder if my teacher needed to climb on the roof and adjust the antenna. Then it hit me: what the heck? Technically speaking/as this helpful reddit page explains, tv static was originally the cause of an internal mechanism within the television: the amplifier, normally in charge of boosting whatever signal it received (from th