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.

  • 10_0@lemmy.world
    221·
    25 days ago

    CDs and DVDs, because ownership beats convenience when you can get them second hand for pennies on the pound

    • FuzzyRedPanda@lemm.eeEnglish
      6·
      25 days ago

      And the technology has evolved that I can actually record and re-record to these plastic discs using lasers and it all fits inside a 1cm-tall drive that sits on my desk. And if the manufacturer uses high-quality materials, the disc will last hundreds of years.

      Also some discs I can then either ink-print or laser-print on the top of it? Simply amazing.