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It's not so bad. Especially if you spend most of your time in a terminal, as I often do. It's somewhat nostalgic, even. Ah, my first display, a 80x25 text mode

by titzer 5y ago

It's not so bad. Especially if you spend most of your time in a terminal, as I often do. It's somewhat nostalgic, even. Ah, my first display, a 80x25 text mode DOS 5.0 terminal on a CRT...sigh

eddieroger 5y ago
That does sound delightfully nostalgic. Sometimes when I use my iPad for SSH'ing in to things, I get that same sense. I don't need a dedicated SSH box that badly, and I wouldn't gut an iMac for the privilege when it can run SSH natively, but that would be a fun box to have.
jrockway 5y ago
I might be misremembering, but I feel like when LCDs became mainstream, they were ostensibly worse in resolution than CRTs. CRTs were commonly at 1024x768 for a while, but I remember running specially-selected ones at 1600x1200 or even higher (1860xsomething?). LCDs replaced my nice high res CRTs with 1024x768, and then I waited a decade for 3840x2160, which was definitely a step up. I remember being ridiculously excited by my circa-2004 24" LCD. How could a screen be that big? 1920x1200 pixels? How can there be so many!? And now that is like a tiny garbage dumb LCD that you find in the storage closet and decide isn't worth the desk space. (My favorite thing is the HDTV craze. You can still buy laptops with a 720p display these days, because "HD" is supposed to be a positive marketing term! But it's really 1995-era resolutions at 2022 prices!)
- titzer 5y ago
  > they were ostensibly worse in resolution than CRTs That fits my recollection too. I remember 1280x1024 being very common on 19-21" CRTs circa 2000.
  - idonotknowwhy 5y ago
    My cheap 19 inch dell does 1600x1200. I sometimes run it at 1024x768 120hz and it's much clearer than my 240hz lcd
- idonotknowwhy 5y ago
  You can run them at 120hz with 0 input lag as well. I feel like we made a mistake phasing them out. There was even a wide screen trinitron which ran at 1080p 120hz, 20 years ago.
- cestith 5y ago
  Some pro model CRTs were 1920 * 1280. I have a 21" Viewsonic in a closet that still works every time I try it, but wow is it heavy and bulky compared to what we're used to today.

by titzer 5y ago

It's not so bad. Especially if you spend most of your time in a terminal, as I often do. It's somewhat nostalgic, even. Ah, my first display, a 80x25 text mode DOS 5.0 terminal on a CRT...sigh

eddieroger 5y ago

That does sound delightfully nostalgic. Sometimes when I use my iPad for SSH'ing in to things, I get that same sense. I don't need a dedicated SSH box that badly, and I wouldn't gut an iMac for the privilege when it can run SSH natively, but that would be a fun box to have.

jrockway 5y ago

I might be misremembering, but I feel like when LCDs became mainstream, they were ostensibly worse in resolution than CRTs. CRTs were commonly at 1024x768 for a while, but I remember running specially-selected ones at 1600x1200 or even higher (1860xsomething?). LCDs replaced my nice high res CRTs with 1024x768, and then I waited a decade for 3840x2160, which was definitely a step up. I remember being ridiculously excited by my circa-2004 24" LCD. How could a screen be that big? 1920x1200 pixels? How can there be so many!? And now that is like a tiny garbage dumb LCD that you find in the storage closet and decide isn't worth the desk space. (My favorite thing is the HDTV craze. You can still buy laptops with a 720p display these days, because "HD" is supposed to be a positive marketing term! But it's really 1995-era resolutions at 2022 prices!)

titzer 5y ago
> they were ostensibly worse in resolution than CRTs That fits my recollection too. I remember 1280x1024 being very common on 19-21" CRTs circa 2000.
- idonotknowwhy 5y ago
  My cheap 19 inch dell does 1600x1200. I sometimes run it at 1024x768 120hz and it's much clearer than my 240hz lcd
idonotknowwhy 5y ago
You can run them at 120hz with 0 input lag as well. I feel like we made a mistake phasing them out. There was even a wide screen trinitron which ran at 1080p 120hz, 20 years ago.
cestith 5y ago
Some pro model CRTs were 1920 * 1280. I have a 21" Viewsonic in a closet that still works every time I try it, but wow is it heavy and bulky compared to what we're used to today.