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What's a technology that was cooler in its older iterations? (pawb.social)
submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by VinesNFluff@pawb.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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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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[–] tibi@lemmy.world 31 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The internet when it wasn't overtaken by a few major corporations.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What about taking it back?

[–] UsefulInfoPlz@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I think it’s too late for that. It’s mainstream now and the sheeple are happy to be lead as long as they get to their mindless makeup tutorial.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm working on a decentralised "web", you can have your own website of "facebook" page, 1995 style, for example, all controlled by yourself.

[–] kalpol@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You can do that bow, with Linux and Apache

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

True, but mine is decentralised, so no need for a registrar or a static IP or similar.

You can check it out here if you want to.