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- A computer monitor is an electronic device that displays images in pictorial form on a computer. It is an output device.
- It consists of a screen and a wire plugged into the CPU.
- It is the second-most important component of a computer after the CPU because it displays the results of any data.
- A computer monitor looks like a television, with the difference that a monitor does not have a remote to change the channels like a television.
- Initially, computer monitors were used only for data processing.
- From the 1980s on, computer monitors were used for entertainment purposes as well, like watching videos.
- The computer monitor was first invented by a German scientist, Karl Ferdinand Braun, in 1857.
- Computer monitors are classified into three types: cathode ray tube (CRT), liquid crystal display (LCD), and light-emitting diodes (LED).
- At present, only LCD and LED monitors are available on the market.
- Monitors are used for a variety of purposes, such as gaming, entertainment, data entry applications such as MS Excel, creating PowerPoint presentations with MS Power Point, web browsing, and so on.
