Amusing that it can lead to a romantically distorted future for those terminal users.

As someone who came up in that era, I would never want to regain those barrel distortions or incoherent pixels I saw in some of the heavy-handed retro terminals. I paid good money for flatter CRTs and also jumped to LCD with a digital input (DVI) as soon as it was a general option I could justify on a work computer order.

I'm also happy not to be hearing the constant whine of CRT coils, HDD drive motors, or even so many cooling fans these days.