@rl_dane

Ah yes, the Unabomber, Iran-Contra, and Michael Jackson releasing Bad.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1987

@amin

Also, the early-middle 16-bit era, which was the coolest era in computing, hands down. Particularly the #Amiga.

Actually, the Amiga is the motivation for my whole #LossyPNG hashtag. It's a love letter to those machines and that era.

It's hard to appreciate 24/32 bit / 16.7 million colors.
4 colors is a joke, 16 colors is barely enough to do anything.
But when you have a machine that can give you 32, 64, and sometimes 4096 colors, you really begin to appreciate the way it can represent reality.

With 32-bit color, you notice the annoying banding more than its incredible fidelity.

I'm kind of surprised we still don't have a 48-bit color standard yet. With good lossy compression, the extra data wouldn't make files significantly larger, and it would do a lot to eliminate annoying banding artifacts in rendered images, games, and photos of the sky and other subtle gradients.

*sigh*, thanks for the dopamine. This was a badly needed diversion.

@rl_dane @amin I will say, while I don't care about resolution, high refresh rates make me dizzy, and super bright displays should _only_ be used outside, more color depth really _would_ be nice, and that's the only thing we don't seem to be chasing much anymore.

Like, I _adore_ older lower color counts. Especially on CRTs. And I even love monochrome. But if we're gonna have super over the top displays, they just _fall apart_ without higher color depths.