What's a technology that was cooler in its older iterations?

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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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Used to be where NVidia GPUs could run in an AMD motherboard.

They still can.

Oof, wait. I mean when AMD processors were actually compatible with nVidia motherboards.

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But that's not a thing for intel CPUs either, at least not anymore.

I'm not sure why, but Nvidia hasn't been making chipsets/motherboard sfor quite a while. Or was there a point in time when it only made chipsets for intel CPUs?