Talk:History of display technology

Requested move

The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

No consensus to move. Feel free to merge, rewrite and or redirect as the community decides. Vegaswikian (talk) 19:17, 5 May 2011 (UTC)

History of display technology → Display examples – The page is and has always been meant to show what display technologies that are available. The introduction year is a helpful side note, not the primary subject. Any historic description should be on a separate article as it will make it harder than otherwise to get a quick overview. Preferably a subcategory. I request that the article be renamed to its original name. Electron9 (talk) 19:23, 28 April 2011 (UTC)

• Oppose Article as it stands shows the progressive history of displays. 'Display examples' sounds like a description of a subsection of an article, not an article itself. The comments of both AfDs suggested that the name 'Display examples' was incorrect, and that it needed to be renamed. - SudoGhost (talk) 19:39, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
• Oppose: Both Display device and Category:Display technology already provide such a list of display technologies. Also, as noted in the AfD, Wikipedia is not an image gallery. A historical perspective provides more context and makes the article more meaningful than just a gallery of images. Casablanca2000in (talk) 20:46, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
• Move of course ;) Electron9 (talk) 12:21, 29 April 2011 (UTC)
• Oppose - The previous AFDs show a belief that the article content provides a base from which to build a timeline or history of display technologies. The title "History of display technology" accurately reflects this whereas "Display examples" is pushing this article back into the image gallery arena. -- Whpq (talk) 13:40, 29 April 2011 (UTC)
• Delete/Merge if this is only "display examples", it should be deleted or merged into the main article. The only way this is a viable article is if it is a timeline. 65.94.45.160 (talk) 05:17, 30 April 2011 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

More

Before the 1922 CRT came a few other types:

• galvanometer, d'arsonval meter movement, and mirror versions of these
• Pen type chart recorder
• Electromechanical oscilloscope
• Inkdots on ticker tape
• electric typewriter style printers

also exist:

• filament displays
• nixies
• decatrons
• magic eye tubes
• Nipkov disc, often used with neon lamp

82.31.207.100 (talk) 04:38, 23 June 2011 (UTC)

Thin film transistor picture?

In the caption for the thin film transistor, the year is 1968. That laptop is not from 1968 and laptops were not common at that time. I do not know much about said monitor, but perhaps someone else does? Lekro (talk) 11:15, 6 September 2012 (UTC)

The year is the year when the technology were invented. Not the photo example. Electron9 (talk) 02:14, 11 February 2013 (UTC)

Picture candidates

An incandescent filament-type early seven-segment display, a.k.a. Numitron (Seven-segment display)

Electron9 (talk) 02:16, 11 February 2013 (UTC)

modern touch screen?

when did the technology that made touchscreens possible for phones & tablets emerge? can that get a mention? skakEL 19:50, 6 December 2015 (UTC)

External links modified

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 3 external links on History of display technology. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

• Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20120322134634/http://www.medical-answers.org/hd/index.php?t=Tektronix+4014 to http://www.medical-answers.org/hd/index.php?t=Tektronix+4014
• Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20120929205415/http://www.auburn.edu/~boultwr/lcdnote.pdf to http://www.auburn.edu/~boultwr/lcdnote.pdf
• Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20110516084307/http://www.hitech-projects.com/euprojects/diginews/publications/Adapting%20production%20workflow%20processes%20for%20digital%20newsprint.pdf to http://www.hitech-projects.com/euprojects/diginews/publications/Adapting%20production%20workflow%20processes%20for%20digital%20newsprint.pdf

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 18 January 2022).

• If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
• If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 02:33, 5 November 2017 (UTC)

merge this to the Display device page

There is no history section on the Display device page. I originally went there to find the history but to my surprise there was nothing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sfmth (talk • contribs) 14:44, 18 October 2020 (UTC)