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.

  • manmachine@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Sam is a treasure. I wonder if I would ever afford to travel, but I’d sure love to visit his museum.

    • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
      2·
      6 days ago

      So true. He has such an energetic personality. I feel like just spending a day in the museum with him nerding out about everything would be so amazing.