My kid refused to believe me when I told him that I grew up with an electron gun in the house that fired accelerated particles at a screen, he stated that simply couldn’t be safe and no one would allow that.
I told him that was the 70’s for you
The don’t sit too close part was because kids with bad eyesight would sit closer to the TV, so parents started associating it but reversed cause and effect; they believed that sitting too close made their eyesight worse, which it didn’t
I mean the 50s ones probably did but everything in the 50s was harmful
TVs used to be a sealed particle accelerator. You should read up on them, it’s fascinating.
My kid refused to believe me when I told him that I grew up with an electron gun in the house that fired accelerated particles at a screen, he stated that simply couldn’t be safe and no one would allow that. I told him that was the 70’s for you
But somehow it was. I think early 50s models leaked radiation or some such which is why there was the whole “don’t sit too close” thing.
Anyway i have 6 CRTs. 2 from the 80s and the rest from the late 90s to 00s.
They’re super neat!
The don’t sit too close part was because kids with bad eyesight would sit closer to the TV, so parents started associating it but reversed cause and effect; they believed that sitting too close made their eyesight worse, which it didn’t
I mean the 50s ones probably did but everything in the 50s was harmful
That makes a lot of sense.