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

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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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[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 25 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I got one that slid up to reveal the keyboard after watching The Matrix, and I thought it was the coolest phone ever. I still have it, and I still think it is pretty cool.

Edit: it's not an actual keyboard though, it's a phone keypad for dialing or sending texts with t9 input.

It was the Samsung A737.

It looks like this closed

And here it is open

[-] morbidcactus@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 months ago

I still have my Sony Eriksson W580i, also thought it was the coolest thing.

Still works and holds a charge, pulled photos off of the memory card recently, cameras have gotten a lot better... Had the red one, have had some very brightly colored phones, my favourite being the bright yellow Nokia Lumia 1020

Had an amazing camera on it.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Those are cool phones too, especially the red one! Yeah, the old digital cameras used to be junk. I have some old digital photos that look like they were taken on a potato.

[-] apprehensively_human@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

I think my favourite thing about those old Lumias was the dedicated camera shutter. The 1020 even had a battery grip case so you could hold it more like a digital camera.

[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago

I fell in love with slide phones after watching Densha Otoko!

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