I remember when we had lan parties back in the day and one of my friends who was an intern in a it firm could take one of their super nice monitors home. It was just as deep as a normal monitor and 19 inches i think, but it was somehow special or better because the screen itself wasn’t curved, it was straight. That thing was so heavy it almost broke my desk that i offered him. It was a two man operation to move that thing. i mean more of a two boy operation, it was still heavy as fuck.
I worked in tech since about 2000. I was super evangelical about lcd’s. Wanted to get rid of our crts asap. Unfortunately the ones we kept the longest were huge ones that had geat specs.
I was doing an intern term as IT support for a school in 2006 and I had to change all the screens they use, as they upgraded gear while the students had a holiday.
I had to lug these 21" or were they even 23" CRT’s.
MASSIVE.
Still hurts my back to think about it. Dozens and dozens off those things ufffff. I too gave a few to some friends who wanted them as they got donated somewhere so
Luckily the replacements were TFT’s. Even though they weighed like 5x what similar flat screens weigh nowaday.
LANs were an entirely different business when monitors took so much space
My wife had a flat screen TV that was like 40" across when I met her. When we moved in together it took 3 people almost an hour to get that thing down the stairs. It must have weighed 400 pounds. We used nylon webbing straps on our forearms to loop under the TV and provide some support, and it left deep, red marks on our arms for over a week. Those fucking things must have been filled with lead.
Not just big and heavy. Old monitors were deep. Corners were a great place to dump all that wasted depth.
I remember when we had lan parties back in the day and one of my friends who was an intern in a it firm could take one of their super nice monitors home. It was just as deep as a normal monitor and 19 inches i think, but it was somehow special or better because the screen itself wasn’t curved, it was straight. That thing was so heavy it almost broke my desk that i offered him. It was a two man operation to move that thing. i mean more of a two boy operation, it was still heavy as fuck.
I worked in tech since about 2000. I was super evangelical about lcd’s. Wanted to get rid of our crts asap. Unfortunately the ones we kept the longest were huge ones that had geat specs.
I was doing an intern term as IT support for a school in 2006 and I had to change all the screens they use, as they upgraded gear while the students had a holiday.
I had to lug these 21" or were they even 23" CRT’s.
MASSIVE.
Still hurts my back to think about it. Dozens and dozens off those things ufffff. I too gave a few to some friends who wanted them as they got donated somewhere so
Luckily the replacements were TFT’s. Even though they weighed like 5x what similar flat screens weigh nowaday.
LANs were an entirely different business when monitors took so much space
My wife had a flat screen TV that was like 40" across when I met her. When we moved in together it took 3 people almost an hour to get that thing down the stairs. It must have weighed 400 pounds. We used nylon webbing straps on our forearms to loop under the TV and provide some support, and it left deep, red marks on our arms for over a week. Those fucking things must have been filled with lead.
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Now they’re shallow and wide. Exactly the opposite of what this provides.
Except for those who keep using postage stamp laptop screen like in the picture, I suppose.