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.

  • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
    50·
    22 days ago

    The internet?

    Web 1.0 and even before was way cooler than this corpo bullshit web we have now.

    • mudstickmcgee@sh.itjust.works
      13·
      22 days ago

      Even the corp pages back in the day where cooler. I remember going to the Warnerbrother webpage to play some Daffy duck game they had. Same with cartoon network’s page and probably a bunch others I can’t remember. It was more passion than profit.

    • dotslashme@infosec.pubEnglish
      2·
      22 days ago

      You could try Gemini or gopher web, it reminds me a lot of web 1.0, both style and community feel.

    • blady_blah@lemmy.world
      11·
      22 days ago

      I feel like you don’t actually remember what web 1.0 was like. Or even bbs’s. They… kind of sucked. I mean they were great for the time, but compared to the internet of today, pathetic.

      • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        22 days ago

        The funny part of this comment is that when I was a teenager, I started and ran one of the largest RBBS systems in Canada with about 40 USR modems, and helped out on a couple more big ones like Rusty and Edie’s in the US. I also set up one of the first Echomail and Fidonet nodes in the country, and was a very early adopter getting usenet links working via RBBS. I loved that time, it was exciting and new , and western as hell.

        So I’m pretty sure I know exactly what I’m talking about.

        • NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ@lemmy.world
          2·
          21 days ago

          For real. It certainly wouldn’t hit the same these days - there are reasons these things fell to the wayside - but back in the day? God damn that shit was cool.