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.

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    7 hours ago

    Early to mid 90s was peak internet, even go as far as late 90s still being pretty solid!

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        Fair, looking back, was a lot of good on the net still, you thinking around MySpace launch was the last of the good times??

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          Up to around the launch of the iPhone I guess, the web was so diverse and so many ‘places’, before youtube, google, facebook.