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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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[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 51 points 6 hours ago

Cars used to be cool. Every car company had some kind of sporty car, a couple cheap cars, a big luxury sedan and, a while ago, a station wagon.

Now every car is an SUV or CUV. Sedans are getting phased out. Cool sports cars don't make money so they don't make them. People don't buy station wagons so they don't make them. And they're pushing big, angry trucks on everyone.

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago

And we can't get small trucks due to a loophole in EPA regulations. I just want something like an old-school Ranger, light, easy on gas, two jump seats in the back for the kids.

[-] PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee 1 points 21 minutes ago

The old Ford Rangers were definitely not easy on gas, and those back seats were extremely unsafe. But we could absolutely have trucks that size now that are fuel efficient and safer, and I would buy one in a heart beat. Hell, I tried to buy a Maverick but it's been impossible every year and now they don't even come with the hybrid drivetrain standard so I've lost interest.

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

Bring back the Brat!

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 1 points 23 minutes ago

Alternately, I'd take an El Camino.

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 1 points 8 minutes ago

Fuck yeah, I'd love an El Camino

[-] Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

People don’t buy station wagons so they don’t make them.

Hatchbacks are just renamed station wagons. Change my mind.

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

I'd say a hatchback is a sedan with the trunk/boot removed, while a station wagon has the trunk/boot extended to the roofline. Hatchbacks would end up shorter than the sedan or wagon version of cars.

[-] Varyag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 4 hours ago

This, so much this. As a car enjoyer, seeing cars slowly mutate into giant bloated expensive iPads on wheels is painful. I don't want to buy any car made past 2010 and I know that won't be a viable option soon.

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 7 points 4 hours ago

In the last episode of The Grand Tour Clarkson said that he's done with cars because they've become appliances, and it's no fun reviewing microwaves.

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