What's a technology that was cooler in its older iterations?
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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It's ironic
A microsd card with 64 gigs worth of flac files is smaller, more reliable, and sounds better.
.... But minidiscs still LOOK like the future to me. Something about their shape and size just gives that vibe.
Edit: Phone autocorrect turned flac into 🚩
Exactly, a microSD is boring, it is cool in concept but damn boring IRL.
I would love a minidisc player as a fidget toy!
I might finally have reached the point where I no longer see the Wii as a piece of futuristic tech