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.

  • Shard@lemmy.world
    22·
    6 days ago

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

    I wish someone would being those back

    • kaidenshi@lemmy.world
      5·
      6 days 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·
        5 days ago

        Prices look decent at a glance as well.

        I miss my BB keyboard something fierce.

    • MehBlah@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      5 days ago

      My daughter the other day told me she misses her HTC phone. I got it for her when she was in her early teens and she could text like lightning with that thing.