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.

  • @AA5B
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    12 months ago

    Ah, so more like the bell on a bicycle

    • @chiliedogg
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      22 months ago

      Except there’s another bell that vibrates in response to trigger a switch!

      It’s like auditory entanglement.

      • @AA5B
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        2 months ago

        Spooky action across the room!