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

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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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[–] noxy@yiffit.net 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The indie shit is great tho. Analogue Pocket is an outstanding gaming device to run a whole bunch of portable console games (and some originally non-portable consoles too, like Genesis/Megadrive)

And folks are still making and sometimes even selling Gameboy games right now in 2024

Indie is great, and honestly vital when so much mainstream/AAA shit is such shit

[–] Platypus@lemmings.world 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't wanna deal with crappy controls or needing to install and research roms online

[–] noxy@yiffit.net 6 points 3 weeks ago

controls are very very good and it's intended for use with cartridges. no roms needed - hell it's actually a little extra effort to run rom files on it.

https://www.analogue.co/pocket