Fair. The title is a bit clickbaity. The more accurate claim is: a lot of CRT choices were constraint-driven (power, heat, phosphor efficiency, flicker, tube life), and those constraints often produced more readable, lower-fatigue defaults than some modern “max brightness/high contrast” settings. What fascinated me is how often those engineering constraints ended up lining up with human biology. Also yes, being younger in 1988 probably masked a lot of strain that shows up fast now.
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