Comment by zx8080
6 days ago
To me, the CRT effect looks like an early LCD (TFT panel) one. CRT monitors picture did not look like made of dots from what I can remember (maybe not for all monitors). Except maybe the Trinitron ones.
Great site, thanks for nostalgia!
you're probably right and I've actually had someone tell me that no monitor during the XP era would've been a CRT one haha so the whole things a bit off but I think people can let it slide
> I've actually had someone tell me that no monitor during the XP era would've been a CRT
That person is incorrect. WinXP started selling at retail in Oct 2001. I started using it at work in early 2002 and as a senior employee in a tech company I had a pretty deluxe 21-inch Viewsonic CRT which ran at 2048 x 1536 resolution. That Viewsonic cost $1600 new in 2000 and looked great. The company didn't upgrade to flat screens until about 2006 when the Viewsonic was replaced with a 20-inch Dell 2005fpw with native 1680 x 1050 resolution for $800. That's the year Windows Vista came out.
Even in 2006 corporate priced LCDs at the 20-inch size didn't look quite as good as the high-quality CRT I switched from. In some ways (like sharpness) a good LCD could look better but in other ways (like contrast) it wasn't as good yet - so it was still a mixed bag. About 2004 the company started buying newly hired entry-level employees 15 or 17-inch LCDs but they were typically 1024 x 768 and the quality wasn't great. A designer like you would definitely have stuck with a CRT longer both for quality and screen size at a reasonable price.
noted and I appreciate the detail!
I grew up in Bulgaria and when Windows XP was released almost everyone had a CRT monitor.
As a former Windows XP user: this is amazingly detailed and well done! The CRT effect is spot on for me.
i'll remember that next time someone says anything! thanks dude!
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Yeah XP did use a flatscreen for some of its iconography, but that was to look cute. Nearly everyone but rich people were using CRTs for the first half of XP’s heyday.
Confirm. I used xp on a silicon graphics 21” crt for a longgggg time. Was freaking heavy as hell to lug around, but it was a great monitor even well into the lcd era.
oh, I was definitely rocking a 17" CRT in 2001! Pickup up 2 other guys with CRTs and lugging it to a friends for a LAN party we couldn't fit them in the boot of the Ford Meteor and had to cram them in with the passengers in the back seat.
> no monitor during the XP era would've been a CRT one haha
Well, not really, and it depended highly on the place of work/study and country/state. For example, my University replaced the CRT ones with LCDs only in 2005-06 (they've used XP in computer rooms for quite a long time, skipping Vista and 8).
I myself used the CRT monitor with winXP until the late 2004.
some of those redditors don't know what they're saying then, huh? thats such a good point - couldn't I run XP on a CRT monitor today if i wanted to
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Got my first own computer in 2002. It ran Windows XP and had a CRT, as did the home computers my friends had too at the time :)
whoever tell me it's wrong next is going to be hit with multiple real life testimonies, they'll never expect it