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

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago

I guess, in a very liberal definition of the term, "cloud gaming". Specifically the old LodgeNet systems in hotels where you could rent Nintendo games by the hour to be streamed to your room from a physical console somewhere behind the front desk. Every room had a special controller with oodles of extra buttons on it hardwired to the television that also functioned as television remotes.

The service was objectively awful, of course, when factoring in how much the hotel charged compared to what little you got for it. But I've always found it fascinating.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

LED panel, which really is just a bajillion very tiny lightbulbs.

It is not, but for the sake of the argument it's ok.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It is. Not to be confused with LCD.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well, they're not bulbs, they're diodes... but yeah.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Haha, true on the nerdy side

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The phones with the internal hidden camera, I was sure it would be the future

https://www.91mobiles.com/list-of-phones/pop-up-camera-phones

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

My previous had this & I liked the privacy of it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I want this so I can be sure my phone isn't sneaking a peek at my pooping face

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Yes! And full screen with no bs punch-hole or pricey under-screen camera

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