it's endlessly funny to me that humanity FIRST figured out how to show pictures on a screen by using carefully calibrated and timed electromagnets to sweep an electron beam of varying intensity across a glass panel coated in phosphor thousands of times a second, and SECOND put a bunch of lights in a rectangle

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@monorail we did the "bunch of lights in a rectangle" way earlier it was just that lights were much larger and more prone to failure, plus we still needed a way to create something to display on the bunch of lights

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