Retrojab

Sources: Wikipedia , home.bt.com , tech-faq.com , howstuffworks.com I guess my first real post will be about these guys. They weren't abandoned too long ago, having been manufactured until surprisingly recent years (2015). Everybody has seen one of these: They are still common in lots of hotels, and even in households on a lesser extent. Most people would laugh at the thought of getting one of these nowadays, thinking they are just bulky and awful pieces of trash, but CRT technology is a lot more fascinating than most people would believe or imagine it to be. In fact, the two tube TVs in the image above are my own, and I got one last summer, the other one last spring. I promise, the image looks way better in reality on both of them than it does in my not-that-great photos :) CRT stands for cathode ray tubes. Cathode rays were first discovered in 1869 in a primitive Crookes Tube . In 1897, the earliest cathode ray tubes were invented by german physicist Ferdinand Braun , ...