stackyFACTSThe childhood joy of sitting too close to the television was actually just basking in a controlled radiation cannon. CRT monitors used a massive vacuum tube to literally shoot a focused beam of high-speed electrons at a phosphor-coated glass screen, painting the image line by line incredibly fast.
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