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.

  • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    23 days ago

    I got one that slid up to reveal the keyboard after watching The Matrix, and I thought it was the coolest phone ever. I still have it, and I still think it is pretty cool.

    Edit: it’s not an actual keyboard though, it’s a phone keypad for dialing or sending texts with t9 input.

    It was the Samsung A737.

    It looks like this closed

    And here it is open