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

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mrandish 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

> 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.

	▲	mitchivin 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		noted and I appreciate the detail!

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raspasov 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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.

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mitchivin 4 days ago | parent [-]

i'll remember that next time someone says anything! thanks dude!

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raspasov 4 days ago | parent [-]

Just noticed: not sure if intentional, but with the CRT effect, I see a sort of moving line every few seconds or so. I don't recall my CRT monitor doing that, haha! But the tiny dots are spot on for me. The better a CRT monitor was, the smaller and less visible the dots were. But they were always easily visible from up close.

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mitchivin 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

Haha it’s intentional yeah, just to add some extra drama

	▲	raspasov 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		My 2 cents: I would get rid of it, it's kinda jarring and distracting.

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croisillon 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

i agree the CRT effect is mesmerizingly spot on

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xp84 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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.

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nwellinghoff 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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.

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neumann 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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.

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zx8080 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> 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.

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mitchivin 4 days ago | parent [-]

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

	▲	OmarAssadi 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Nothing stopping you from using one with totally modern systems as well, except for the ever increasing prices, I guess. Anyway, yeah, same as some of the others already mentioned, but I don't think I actually owned any sort of standalone display—be it a monitor or television—that wasn't CRT until ~2009 or so? I used my mom's iMac G3 (CRT) probably until 2004 or so, because I distinctly remember getting stuck on Tutorial Island on RuneScape as a kid, since you had to Right-click -> "Prospect Rock", and at the time, I had no idea how to actually do it with Apple's single-button mice lmao. Aside from the couple of laptops that came later, I don't think I had moved on [for the worse] until a bit after I put together my first DIY computer (Phenom II 920, etc); I still had a CRT TV in my room long enough to have been using it when Halo Reach came out.

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QuantumNomad_ 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

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 :)

	▲	mitchivin 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		whoever tell me it's wrong next is going to be hit with multiple real life testimonies, they'll never expect it