• wrekone@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 month ago

    I remember when my parents offered to trade me their 32" Phillips-Magnavox for my puny little 27" because they were “trying to downsize”. I felt so fuckin cool playing Max Payne and Fable on my original Xbox.

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      1 month ago

      My friends parents had a 32" CRT in their living room on a massive stand and us kids had to lay right in front of it when watching TV which was always a little terrifying because it would have crushed us to death had it ever fallen.

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        1 month ago

        Those Viewsonic CRT monitors were amazing. I got one cheap from someone that was “upgrading”. As if you could upgrade from a Viewsonic in the early 2000s. That thing was a beast. By far the largest and heaviest monitor I’ve ever had.

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          There was a terrible period where pretty much every LCD screen you could get was 1080 horizontal lines. My two LCD monitors are from not long before that time. One is starting to fade and it’s nice to know that when I need to replace it I will be able to get something that is at least as good.