I’ve heard this phrase so many times in my life I dont even think about it, but the more I dwell on it, I dont really get it

  • BadgerBadgerBadger
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    1 year ago

    My kid refused to believe me when I told him that I grew up with an electron gun in the house that fired accelerated particles at a screen, he stated that simply couldn’t be safe and no one would allow that. I told him that was the 70’s for you

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      1 year ago

      But somehow it was. I think early 50s models leaked radiation or some such which is why there was the whole “don’t sit too close” thing.

      Anyway i have 6 CRTs. 2 from the 80s and the rest from the late 90s to 00s.

      They’re super neat!

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        1 year ago

        The don’t sit too close part was because kids with bad eyesight would sit closer to the TV, so parents started associating it but reversed cause and effect; they believed that sitting too close made their eyesight worse, which it didn’t

        I mean the 50s ones probably did but everything in the 50s was harmful