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What's a technology that was cooler in its older iterations? (pawb.social)

submitted 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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] 24 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

The Internet.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Computers making Fennec Fox noises at each other over the telephone line. And that connected you to the world.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Early 2000 was best IMO.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

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