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Remember when they looked like this?

Let’s talk about computer monitors for a second.  I know it’s a boring subject for many, but if you are a technological fiend like me then you’ll be more than excited to spend this time with me talking about display sizes, resolutions and different display technologies.
If you’re the type of person who sits on CNET looking up all of the new tech specs on the Sony monitors or Dell monitors, then you’re my kind of person.  You understand just how important an invention computer monitors really are.  Without the ingenuity of tech startups like Apple and the research team at Xerox, we may still have the monitor – but it would be much less developed than it is today.  It’s important to realize that the ability to interface with a computer was the spark that lit the technological bonfire that has been raging since the early 1990s.
Without computer monitors, there would be no Amazon.  There would be no Facebook.  There would be no Microsoft Windows 95 – or Windows 7.  The ability for us to actually see what’s going on with our personal computers was as big a revolution as flight, the landing on the moon, and even the automotive revolution.
If you doubt that claim, just take a look at how many times you have Skyped a relative or Tweeted your favorite recipe, only to have a dear friend let you know you used too much salt.  Our lives have been forever changed by the internet – but remember, the internet doesn’t exist without the ability to see it.  This is something that people constantly forget when it comes to computing technology and innovation.
We have come a long way in computer monitor technology as well.  From CRT to LCD to Plasma to 3d, there have been so many millions of tiny improvements over time that the computer monitors of today are virtually unrecognizable from the first monitors that ever existed.  If you don’t believe me, just go watch “Pirates of Silicon Valley” and check out the monitor that Steve Wozniak attached to the Apple II.  Then, go to Dell and check out their 3007-WFP 30” monitor.  The difference is like night and day.  One is a wood-bound miniature TV that displays black and white.  The other is a thirty inch beast that is extremely thin and displays billions of colors simultaneously.

Now they look like this....

The entire gaming industry would be nowhere without monitors.  It allowed rapid development in computer graphics and contributed to the entertainment of millions of children and adults.  I myself am a child of the video game playing 1990s and I couldn’t be more thankful for the opportunity to entertain myself in this way.  It was such an amazing period of my life to be able to play these fantastical games and imagine myself in similar scenarios.  The ability to see all of this on a moving screen of color and light was something that I will never forget as long as I live.  I still game quite a bit and have managed to snag one of the best computer monitors on the market to support my gaming habit.