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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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[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Cell phones, when they had personality. The 2000s was such a good time for them, you had so many designs. Slide out keyboard, panels that can slide, sleek designs, some had actual buttons .etc

But we're now relegated to just a varying series of rectangles and squares. Yay...

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I still have my Sony Eriksson W580i, also thought it was the coolest thing.

Still works and holds a charge, pulled photos off of the memory card recently, cameras have gotten a lot better... Had the red one, have had some very brightly colored phones, my favourite being the bright yellow Nokia Lumia 1020


Had an amazing camera on it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Those are cool phones too, especially the red one! Yeah, the old digital cameras used to be junk. I have some old digital photos that look like they were taken on a potato.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I think my favourite thing about those old Lumias was the dedicated camera shutter. The 1020 even had a battery grip case so you could hold it more like a digital camera.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I fell in love with slide phones after watching Densha Otoko!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Pictures under glass: literally the only affordance anyone has now for device interaction

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

When the Vengabus has poorly shielded speakers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Micheal Fisher's kbin account.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Mine folds in half, so that's kinda cool