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The blue LED was supposed to be impossible—until a young engineer proposed a moonshot idea.

  • T156@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I’m not sure that LEDs were the thing that kicked off the trend. They made it easier to implement, but even in the 80s and 90s, you had things like Tron that might have kicked off the futuristic look with neon lines/tubes.