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submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Y2K would have been CRTs. But it's not like kids will know that.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Hey we had flat screens back then, they just took up the whole floor space and it took 2 people to move those projection TVs

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Laptops also had LCDs. Just don't move your mouse too fast or the screen can't keep up and it'll disappear

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You're thinking of passive matrix displays. Those were the cheaper option but active matrix screens did exist.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

They did, but you had to pay a pretty penny to have one of those

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