Binary Oscilloscopes: The Ancient Technology that Made You Go "Oh No, Not Again!
In a time long past, before the advent of fancy-schmancy oscilloscopes that do everything except plot the trajectory of the universe, there were these.
They displayed the raw, unfiltered data of the universe in a series of 1s and 0s. It was like trying to read a book with a toddler's alphabet book, but with less context and more confusion.
But hey, it was a start. And who needs fancy when you can have... well, not exactly "fancy", but at least " Binary"?