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

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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 1 day ago

A bunch of tiny lightbulbs that use twisted light and quantum mechanics to turn on or off.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 23 hours ago

Aah.. Boomer bait, we get that a lot :s

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

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

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

Electric guitars. They sounded better. Newer ones just sound louder.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 day ago (3 children)

There was a virus back in the day that could take advantage of old monitors. It would move a turkey around the screen and if you looked at it too long it would cause eye damage.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Gotta need more data on that...

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