Wow is this true?
“Early computer monitors were just televisions and oscilloscopes, black and white boxes repurposed in laboratories, parts of dedicated terminals to access computers so large they took up rooms. They discovered that white phosphor didn’t render text very well onscreen. It was blurry. They tried green because it was the cheapest available phosphor. It worked. They used orange, yellow, and red, too, but I mostly remember the green.”
https://www.ssense.com/en-us/editorial/fashion/color-story-terminal-green
#Computers #CRT
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