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ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• Davel23@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Once I was sitting at the Apple IIgs in my high-school's computer lab using some software with headphones plugged into the back of the computer. I went to wipe away the dust on the screen and got a static shock right in my ear. It was not pleasant.

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• SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  It used to be nice to pass the back of my arm over screens, and feel the little hairs in my skin react. Do it slowly and with a blindfold on and it can be pretty intense :-)

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  • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    blindfold

    I wonder if you could find bright shapes on a black bacground. But Braille haptic devices and speech synthesizers did exist back then so that’s not a practical visually-impaired aid.

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    • SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      No, it was far too vague for that … but not an angle I’d ever thought about!

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  • Damarus@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    You didn’t only use the back of your arm, did you?

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    • SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      lol … the effect only worked well on fine hairs, and getting other body parts close to the screen would be logistically tricky. So, funnily enough, I did only ever did it on my arms

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      • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I have a small number of fine hairs on the back of my fingers’ first section. That’s the sharpest and most sensitive body part that fulfils the criteria and I think you could “scan” the screen with it.

        Wild that most households just used to have a 25kV particle (electron) accelerator.

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• wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Tingle me baby

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