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

submitted 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours 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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[–] TriflingToad@lemmy.world 24 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (4 children)

I MISS CLEAR COMPUTERS >:(

I mean LOOK AT IT it's so much cooler than just a box!
The SteamDeck community has been cooking with some clear cases which I would buy if I didn't have to risk breaking my beloved $500 indie machine.

[–] john117@lemmy.jmsquared.net 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

YOOOOO that purple one! I wonder how hard it would be to do this to mine... time to add this to the Christmas list lol

[–] TriflingToad@lemmy.world 1 points 22 minutes ago

best of luck! the one in the photo is from the company JSAUX but I don't know much about it, just thought it looked pretty

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I miss plastic electronics. Oddly enough glass and metal feel more fragile.

[–] bitwolf@lemmy.one 3 points 1 hour ago

HTC knew what was up with the HTC One series. Their polycarbonate bodies felt Nintendo 64 controller levels of durable.

[–] thebigslime@lemmy.world 5 points 3 hours ago

I bought the translucent nitro purple back plate. Very easy to install.

[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 8 points 3 hours ago

YEYEYEYEYEYEYE

One of my dream projects would be to get a dead iMac G3 and make a modern-day sleeper build inside it. It was honestly the COOLEST a computer has EVER looked.