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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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[–] bruhbeans@lemmy.ml 94 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Steam locomotives. The crazy streamlining, the size of some of those motherfuckers. 6 foot tall wheels, 100 tons moving at 125mph and all that shit accomplished 80+ years ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LNER_Class_A4_4468_Mallard

[–] CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.world 36 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Also, when they catastrophically failed they wound up looking like industrial lovecraftian horrors and produced some of the loudest non-nuclear man made explosions.

None of which is a good thing, but is still pretty cool.

[–] superkret@feddit.org 30 points 1 month ago (1 children)

[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

Looks like one of those mechanical cancer SCPs.

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 7 points 1 month ago

The choochoos got really big at the end of the steam era. UP 4014 happens to be about as long as that bridge which crosses a 4 lane road