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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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[-] Shard@lemmy.world 20 points 13 hours ago

Slide open phones with a QWERTY keyboard. Those were the bomb.

I wish someone would being those back

[-] kaidenshi@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

There’s a company called Unihertz that sells a line of keyboard Android phones similar to the last batch of Blackberry models. I know it’s not slider phones but they are inexpensive.

There is also Planet Computers which makes sliding Qwerty phones but they are expensive.

[-] ____@infosec.pub 3 points 10 hours ago

Prices look decent at a glance as well.

I miss my BB keyboard something fierce.

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