CRT displays are one of those analog technologies that are arguably much cooler than their digital successors. Think – a literan raygun, a particle accelerator, inside your monitor, creating the image you're looking at.
It's much cooler if you haven't used it. That mass of a 19in was crazy. Then you had all of those that had the high pitched noise. And if you were unlucky you had to degauss them. Cool concept, but in practice the digital successors are better.
Trust me, I remember. Cool does not equal convenient. Once a friend and I dragged three extra CRTs to a demo party just so we could put them side by side and write a program that displayed random scrolling messages. Controllable via an IRC bot, even! Today you could do that with a single ultrawide…