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What's a technology that was cooler in its older iterations? (pawb.social)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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] 2 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Electric guitars. They sounded better. Newer ones just sound louder.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

They also feel...worse? Jumbo frets, thick coats of polyurethane, cheap pickguards, plastic pickup covers, etc — yuck.

I've been buying weirdo vintage guitars (teisco, musima) and they feel way better in my hands. The pickups are usually pretty low output, yeah, but the cleans sound so so good.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Looks awesome! I'm guessing the body is about 1" thick?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Well that one is a baritone (26.5" or 27" scale) but still pretty thin (about as thick as the typical strat) and ergonomic.

My other guitar, a 1960s teisco, is one of the lightest guitars I've ever owned:

I'm gonna modify this one though and put a tuneomatic on here, the intonation is quite terrible.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

That bridge looks like it's just a flat metal bar, yeah that's gonna cause problems.