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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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[-] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 54 points 2 months ago

Home stereo systems. As a kid I remained enthralled by the metal face and the heavily tactile buttons and switches and knobs. You felt a delicious variety of feedbacks for every action you took. I honestly think we really lost something special when tactility left technology. It was so satisfying to just use.

[-] luves2spooge@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

My friend's dad had one with a remote that when you changed the volume on the remote the volume knob would move. I thought it was so cool

[-] scoredseqrica@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

My hifi does that, (a very cheap second hand Teac system) it makes me giddy every time it does it!

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

Lol that is definitely cool, no thinking required.

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

Luckily, the age of proper home stereo systems isn't over unless you want it to be. But be warned, it's an expensive rabbit hole to fall into...

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

Yeah, I grabbed an old Technics deck to fix up. So many other things were waaay too expensive.

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

Find a video of the Marantz 2150 with the oscilloscope built in,or the Telefunken reel to deal with the glowing level meter. Really wished I'd kept both of those

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

That's dope. Would love to get one of those some day.

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