by JKCalhoun
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- Beautifully old-school Web in so many ways. Besides the obvious (the layout, the "Sign the Guestbook" link) it is the whole "love" displayed by the site.
Kids, this is what the original web was like. Dedicated (maybe obsessive) site creators that (by hand) put together a site as a tribute to their passion—perhaps hoping to find other like-minded souls out there.
No ads. Wild, I know.
- Last week a couple of colleagues and I opened an old VGA CRT monitor to try to fix the broken front control buttons. One of my colleagues started his career as a TV repair technician, so he knows how to do it safely, but even then running a CRT without the case is scary as hell.
Anyway, the more I learn about CRTs, the more magical they seem to me. It's incredible what very smart engineers were able to accomplish decades ago with only analog technology!
- How feasible is it to make a crt from parts? I find crt's fascinating learn best by doing- I at least want to demonstrate horizontal and vertical sweeps. But I've never seen a DIY CRT kit before.
by JeremyHerrman
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- this site is oozing with early 2000s charm - love it
i also like how they use a through-hole transistor as a scale for their miniature CRTs section
be sure to check out another more modern labor of love for CRTs: crtdatabase.com
- Is it strange that this isn't the first time I've been on this site? It's got pretty great info, and I used to work a lot with vacuum tubes...
by selfawareMammal
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- As someone who's pre-18, without the nostalgia bias, I couldn't find the website any uglier, but the guestbook part... That was cute.
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