stackyFACTSThe glowing aesthetic of every late-night diner was born in 1910. A French engineer trapped noble gases in a glass tube and ran a current through them, creating a brilliant red glow. He proudly displayed it to the public, inadvertently inventing the cyberpunk aesthetic a century early.
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