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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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[–] [email protected] 29 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

CDs and DVDs, because ownership beats convenience when you can get them second hand for pennies on the pound

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago

And the technology has evolved that I can actually record and re-record to these plastic discs using lasers and it all fits inside a 1cm-tall drive that sits on my desk. And if the manufacturer uses high-quality materials, the disc will last hundreds of years.

Also some discs I can then either ink-print or laser-print on the top of it? Simply amazing.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 hours ago

Also:

FUCKING LASERS DUDE! Lasers will never NOT be cool.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Clothing and towels made with asbestos fabric. During the middle ages you could clean them by throwing them in the fire and they would come out clean. Eventually your lungs would give up on you but for a while you had a very cool way to impress your guests.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

.... We (as in humanity) made a lot of cool shit before we realised it was slowly killing us.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 hours ago (10 children)

Video games. Way back then there was imagination involved, and companies took risks. Nowadays every game seems to iterate on the same tired formula. The only recent entry I can think of that bucked this trend in the past few decades was maybe Portal, but there have been few to no other recent games that come to mind. Fight me.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 hours ago

If you're only talking about AAA games, sure.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 hours ago

Alan Wake 2 and Control are fantastic!

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 hours ago (10 children)

Sex toys and local multiplayer is a way better combination than cybersex and online matchmaking

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

cybersex and online matchmaking

For when your team literally gets fucked.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 hours ago

BlackBerry (RIM)

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