• cynar@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      When one of your times is in milliseconds, while the other requires awareness of relativistic effects, you might as well call it instant.

      The propagation speed in copper is 2/3 C. With analogue monitors, that was effectively amped and thrown at the screen. The phosphate coating is the slowest part, that takes 0.25-0.5ms to respond fully.

      By comparison, at the time, “gaming” LCD screens were advertising 23ms response rates.