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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    3 hours ago

    I’ve got a house built in the 70s and a new Volvo wagon won’t fit lengthwise in it without gutting the garage.

    Meanwhile my GTI can fit in front of my workbench with almost six feet to spare.

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      Oh, good point, hadn’t thought about the changes to garages over time. Hmm.