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What's a technology that was cooler in its older iterations? (pawb.social)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I don't mean BETTER. That's a different conversation. I mean cooler.

An old CRT display was literally a small scale particle accelerator, firing angry electron beams at light speed towards the viewers, bent by an electromagnet that alternates at an ultra high frequency, stopped by a rounded rectangle of glowing phosphors.

If a CRT goes bad it can actually make people sick.

That's just. Conceptually a lot COOLER than a modern LED panel, which really is just a bajillion very tiny lightbulbs.

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

"Steam gauges" on car/plane instrument panels. Yeah, digital displays are cheaper to manufacture and less prone to failure, but they kinda suck the fun out of it.

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

Did someone say CRT??? https://lemmy.world/c/crtart

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Subscribed

But also, hint:

If instead of pasting a direct link to a community, you use the [[email protected]](/c/[email protected]) syntax, people who click that will get sent to view the community from inside their home instance.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Ah shoot you're right, got it for next time. Thanks for the sub!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Car washes. All those pretty lights and water effects are now replaced with an instant transition.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Phones. From anytime up to and including rotary phones.

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