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.

  • Count Regal Inkwell@pawb.socialOP
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    22 days ago

    Or we’ll keep chasing horizons that will forever be deadly but cool.

    But now we’re leaving “this old invention is cool” territory and getting into “humans are space orcs” waters.