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

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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 60 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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.

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 months ago

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

[-] bitwolf@lemmy.one 8 points 2 months ago

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

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

I've got a drawer that has a stack of my old phones and devices in it. Among them is the CD MP3 player I've had since high school. It's 24 years old, made entirely of plastic, it followed me all the way through high school and part of the way through college, and it's in perfect working condition and bears only light scuffs. It might be my midlife crisis coming on but I'm tempted to start using the thing again instead of my smart phone. My PC tower has a 5 1/4" bay, I'm tempted to install an optical drive in it.

[-] bitwolf@lemmy.one 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I still move a 5.25" Blu Ray writer drive between machines. Just in case I want to rip or watch an old bluray.

Without it, we have to sit.and wait for the dusty Xbox One to update just so it let's us play a bluray.

The Xbox One is so fantastically bad, the only reason it's not in the garbage is because it's not mine and the SO wants to save it

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I realize my smartwatch is made with really hard to scratch or crack glass, but every single time I ding it on something, I anxiously check to see.

[-] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 11 points 2 months 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.

[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I’ve still got original Mac from 1984 and have been mighty tempted to see what I could do with a raspberry pi

[-] thebigslime@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

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

[-] StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

If you go to a United States prison, all of the electronics are clear!

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

I remember the clear telephone in my friend's dorm room. He called it Pavlov because he had to respond to it when the bell rang.

[-] john117@lemmy.jmsquared.net 2 points 2 months ago

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 2 months 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

[-] hardcoreufo@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I broke the screen on mine doing the transplant. Was able to get a new screen to fix it but it made it a 100 dollar project instead of a 20 dollar project.

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago

The Switch Pro Controller is a little bit transparent which is cool.

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