Who else misses pressing the degauss button on giant CRT monitors just to hear that heavy magnetic thud?
So I was thinking about our high school computer lab this morning. Back in the early 2000s, every desk had those massive, seventeen-inch white box monitors that weighed about forty pounds and took up the entire table.
every single monitor had a little horseshoe magnet icon on the front menu panel. If the screen colors started bleeding into purple near the corners, you pressed that button.
The monitor would let out this deep, heavy magnetic `BWUUMPH` sound that made your entire desk vibrate for two seconds. The screen image would violently shake like a digital earthquake before snapping back into crisp focus.
It was an ABSOLUTELY top-tier sensory hit. Then you would hold your forearm two inches away from the curved glass screen just to feel the crackling static electricity pull your arm hair straight up. I should of appreciated that heavy analog hardware more before flat LCD screens made desk setups completely silent. Why did modern technology have to lose all of its tactile weight?