Gosh, it sure seems like this author got a lot of this history from the "Gas and Glass" chapter of my book THE FRIENDLY ORANGE GLOW (Pantheon Books, 2017), which is a history of the PLATO system including the invention of the plasma display. Or maybe he got it from an AI that got it from vacuuming up my book.
Funny how the article has zero citations or notes.
So it goes.
AntiRush 10 minutes ago [-]
Your book looks like it will be fascinating! I ordered through bookshop.org since I already have an account, but do you have a preferred retailer for others who might want to buy it?
Sorry to hear that. So disappointed in the AI companies for making no serious efforts towards transparency for the citation of works and prior art.
elzbardico 46 minutes ago [-]
People are creating agents that get pirated PDF copies of books and them make articles out of paraphrasing entire chapters to generate youtube AI slop videos and SEO slop blogs.
jjwiseman 1 hours ago [-]
When I started at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champagne in 1988, the computer labs were still filled with PLATO terminals. They were extremely cool--nice displays, and many were also touch screens. I did my physics homework on them, and played games but I definitely didn't use them to their full extent.
Looking at photos of them now they appear blocky and relatively ugly, but I remember them fondly.
msarnoff 2 hours ago [-]
Orange dot-matrix gas plasma displays were used on pinball machines for over 2 decades before the manufacturers switched to colour LCD screens. Now instead of clever pixel art and high legibility we have cheesy CGI and so much information on screen that I have no idea what to shoot for…
farmin 2 hours ago [-]
I loved my 50ish inch Panasonic plasma tv. It’s still used in our cottage. The blacks are deep, no blur and remote control response was instant unlike a lot of modern smart tvs.
SaucyWrong 2 hours ago [-]
Me too, I have a 15 year old Panasonic 60” that I’m still daily driving until the proverbial wheels fall off. I’m not looking forward to tv shopping in the smart-garbage-infested marketplace of today…
CPLX 1 hours ago [-]
Yeah, I had a Panasonic plasma too the picture was so much better (well in many ways at least) than the new generation. It seemed a lot more "analog" for lack of a better term.
superkuh 2 hours ago [-]
Plasma screens, like computer case windows, are incredibly rude but the people using them have no idea that their behavior is inappropriate. Both emit significant amounts of HF radio interference which bounces around the ionosphere degrading a shared resource for all of Earth. And even more VHF and up interference which only degrades a shared resource till the next hill. It's pretty much just like littering in a public park.
elzbardico 44 minutes ago [-]
I wouldn't be surprised to find out that the powers that be, so fond of censorship and control, actually think making HF amateur radio unusable is a nice outcome.
SaucyWrong 1 hours ago [-]
I was surprised to learn this just now.
akersten 57 minutes ago [-]
probably un learn it, it's cap
ranger_danger 2 hours ago [-]
Really wish we could have gotten SED[1] or FED... imagine the motion clarity of CRT with the size and weight of LCD. There's still nothing like it... even 500hz OLED still can't match it, you'd really need double that.
Funny how the article has zero citations or notes.
So it goes.
http://friendlyorangeglow.com/
Looking at photos of them now they appear blocky and relatively ugly, but I remember them fondly.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface-conduction_electron-em...