god damn LAN parties used to be such a faff.
me, my sis, and her boyfriend loaded up a tiny vauxhall nova with 3 full towers, 3 CRTs, the 3 of us, plus the sundries.
was so bad the tyres rubbed in the wheel arches and it was maxing out at 40mph.
I had a black and white TV in my bedroom and if I pressed my hand against the screen, the whistle stopped. Had to press hard though: couldn't keep it there.
Yeah, it was a mechanical vibration of the wires in a transformer by the picture tube. Could get stupid loud. A lot of Americans my age went deaf at that frequency pretty early on. It's a different frequency in other countries.
The absolute gall of TV makers. They are supposed to be a dumb display for all the devices hooked up to it, and only those devices can connect to the internet and sell my data.
It's amazing having a TV from the era where they were already flat and big and reliable, but weren't yet assuming Internet (mine *can* do Internet, via its Ethernet jack lol)
I’ve already got a Grandpa Simpson rant all worked up for when I’m old about how when I was your age when we wanted to see an image on a screen we had a particle accelerator that blasted a phosphorus painted piece of glass with a beam of electrons
Took me about 3 years to realise I could tuck a modern under my arm and move it to another part of the house instead of calling a furniture removal team, such is the CRT legacy
As someone who spent years being trained in the analogue tv signal chain, yes. Consider the mysteries of the TV tube in the camera. Picture in your mind the shadow mask in the CRT through which the electrons pass before hitting the phosphors. This is deeper magic than Aslan knew.
