The flavor text on this card is a reference to the opening lines of William Gibson's novel "Neuromancer," which is perhaps the first great cyberpunk book: "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel."

Netrunner is full of little references to Gibson: William Gibson also popularized the term ICE, and a major character in Neuromancer was named Armitage (Armitage Codebusting).