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Nostalgia

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nostalgia noun nos·tal·gia nä-ˈstal-jə nə-, also nȯ-, nō-; nə-ˈstäl- 1: a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition also : something that evokes nostalgia

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[–] [email protected] 95 points 8 months ago (14 children)

Not just big and heavy. Old monitors were deep. Corners were a great place to dump all that wasted depth.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 8 months ago (12 children)

I remember when we had lan parties back in the day and one of my friends who was an intern in a it firm could take one of their super nice monitors home. It was just as deep as a normal monitor and 19 inches i think, but it was somehow special or better because the screen itself wasn't curved, it was straight. That thing was so heavy it almost broke my desk that i offered him. It was a two man operation to move that thing. i mean more of a two boy operation, it was still heavy as fuck.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago (7 children)

Sounds like a Sony Trinitron to me. I had a 17" one for about a decade and it was equally magnificent and heavy. The largest one was 24" 16:10 widescreen.

https://aperturegrille.fandom.com/wiki/SONY_GDM-FW900

I wanted one so badly, but while these were finally somewhat affordable in 2010 (and still vastly superior to any flat-screen monitor), the shipping costs would have been ruinous.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

i would still want one of those monitors, but the few i've seen are ridiculously priced.

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