I’ve come to refer to it as static/snow but I specifically remember hearing it called ants/ant races as a child some 40 years ago. The husband of the elderly couple that took care of us base kids would insist he had a favorite and could tell if it was winning.
I get some strange comfort that it is called that by others and wasn’t some abstraction of my memory
Always called it “Ant races”
I’ve come to refer to it as static/snow but I specifically remember hearing it called ants/ant races as a child some 40 years ago. The husband of the elderly couple that took care of us base kids would insist he had a favorite and could tell if it was winning.
I get some strange comfort that it is called that by others and wasn’t some abstraction of my memory
Me too! It was about 30 years ago for me.
That’s neat! What’s your country/region?
Oregon, USA about 30 years ago
I use a related phrase in Photoshop. If you have something selected, the movement around the thing is “running ants”.