You want the monitor to be firm, but give a little in your hands when you squeeze. Too much squish though? That’s no good. That monitor is overripe.
The color is important too however. Just enough beige white, once it crosses into yellow they are no good.
just old enough to have a vga port. perfect; pick it here before it grows any further and no longer supports every server ever made.
This is like the wet dream for retro computer nerds
I remember hauling those CRTs to lan parties back in late 1990s and early 2000s. Worth it.
I still have two 19" CRTs stockpiled in my basement in case I ever decide to build a retro arcade cabinet and want authenticity.
I wish I still had my old Trinitron :'(
I’d have liked to make an installation of a dozen of them, an altar, like you can see in some games/movies. All of them on top of each other with different angles, but showing you something in sync, before every one of them shows a glitching digital eye looking at you.
A sys admin wearing that suit??
That’s how you can tell the pic is 40 years old (ai slopedited).ai slop
Not everything odd is AI, and I don’t believe this image is.
It’s consistent with the era of the monitors, has controls in believable locations on them, has a variety of angles that look right (including the supports underneath the base), and searching tineye with this image returns results with the same photo going back to at least 2015.
You are right, it’s probably just edited (by humans rather than current gen AI).
Eg sussy artefacty bits from the pic above:
(See how monitors arent complete & the geometry is wrong at the top & bottom?)Or this obvious copypasta (with one edit in the mid):
The reflexions of light in the edited monitors is wrong too (that’s the first thing I noticed that made me look closer).
Og pic without the fuckery:
