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.

  • @tibi
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    3128 days ago

    The internet when it wasn’t overtaken by a few major corporations.

    • @Valmond
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      028 days ago

      What about taking it back?

      • @UsefulInfoPlz
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        228 days ago

        I think it’s too late for that. It’s mainstream now and the sheeple are happy to be lead as long as they get to their mindless makeup tutorial.

        • @Valmond
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          028 days ago

          I’m working on a decentralised “web”, you can have your own website of “facebook” page, 1995 style, for example, all controlled by yourself.

          • @kalpol
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            228 days ago

            You can do that bow, with Linux and Apache

            • @Valmond
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              28 days ago

              True, but mine is decentralised, so no need for a registrar or a static IP or similar.

              You can check it out here if you want to.