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.

  • fmstrat
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    272 months ago

    Ice. As time has gone by, it has become less cool.

      • @Jarix
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        32 months ago

        No, you wont. Ill shield wall that joke all day long

    • @LordCrom
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      32 months ago

      The force is strong with this one.

    • @linearchaos
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      22 months ago

      Not sure if joke, but hells yeah, they used to being a huge fucking block to your door.

      • @[email protected]
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        12 months ago

        I mean we still send out people to collect bags of ice. It’s a shame we keep losing people. Probably should sell the bags for more than $2.50.

    • don
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      12 months ago

      MODS BAN THIS 1 RITE FUCKIN NOW plskthxbai