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I'd venture to guess everyone here knows what YouTube is even if they never use it. I wonder how many (even on this list) have seen a CRT? (I'm guessing the a
by kkylin 4y ago
I'd venture to guess everyone here knows what YouTube is even if they never use it. I wonder how many (even on this list) have seen a CRT?
(I'm guessing the answer is "more than I think...")
- golergka 4y ago> even if they never use it Who would that be?
- dkarl 4y agoI catch myself asking questions like this, but then I remember how much tech from before my lifetime I can identify. Carriages, crank-started automobiles, biplanes, muskets, fire-starting bows, spinning wheels, washboards, etc. How do I know what it looks like to press a wax seal with a ring? Or send a message with a telegraph, or climb the rigging of a square-rigged ship? I know there are people who carefully avoid any media that isn't obviously by and about the present moment, and they'll continue to be clueless about the past like they always have been, but there will also be plenty of people who can identify a CRT into the 22nd century.
- unregistereddev 4y agoI was going to agree "more than you think", but in tech years I'm also old. Maybe people have seen CRT tv's in parents' or grandparents' houses. As someone who has used multiple CRT's and both 5.25" and 3.5" floppy disks, this thread makes me feel old.
- xdennis 4y agoI'm 33. The first time I felt truly old is when in Grown Ups (a comedy) the kid sees a CRT TV and asks "Dad, what is the box behind the TV for?".
- wodenokoto 4y agoIs that what the tube in youtube refers to? I've grown up with CRT's but never made the connection.