I mean, there are some potential drawbacks and inconveniences I guess, but they're just understandably excited about this glorious revolution of entire functioning computers you can lift with your own two human arms, with nary a forklift or even a hand truck to assist you. Who wouldn't be?
(I do worry that the monitor is just going to tip over. But actually, it looks like it's pretty sturdily balanced).
I'm just imagining all the things which could go wrong, like someone tripping over the power cord and disconnecting it, or else causing the monitor to fall off the bed.
But whoever thought that people would like to lie around and look at a screen wasn't wrong, they were just out by a few (ten? twenty?) years -- that's more or less what people do with laptops/tablets/phones.
The idea of hanging out in bed with any kind of lit-up screen makes my eyes hurt - my family's always been sticklers for strict separation, and I've only gotten stricter as I've gotten older. But that doesn't stop other people! I think the first time I saw someone curling up in bed with a laptop was 2000 or so, but I'm sure some 90s business travelers were doing it earlier.
The practice of having a TV in the bedroom (though not on the bed itself) (unless it's one of those tiny portable TVs with a handle on top maybe) is a little older than the Apple IIe, I think, as a widespread phenomenon.
This is a beautiful picture and it needs to be preserved so future generations will know how people lived in the late 20th century. Did families usually cuddle their computers? Yes!
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Date: 2019-02-06 01:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-02-06 04:25 pm (UTC)It took me approx. 60 tries, but I figured it out!
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Date: 2019-02-06 02:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-02-06 04:49 pm (UTC)I mean, there are some potential drawbacks and inconveniences I guess, but they're just understandably excited about this glorious revolution of entire functioning computers you can lift with your own two human arms, with nary a forklift or even a hand truck to assist you. Who wouldn't be?
(I do worry that the monitor is just going to tip over. But actually, it looks like it's pretty sturdily balanced).
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Date: 2019-02-06 03:50 am (UTC)But whoever thought that people would like to lie around and look at a screen wasn't wrong, they were just out by a few (ten? twenty?) years -- that's more or less what people do with laptops/tablets/phones.
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Date: 2019-02-06 05:25 pm (UTC)The idea of hanging out in bed with any kind of lit-up screen makes my eyes hurt - my family's always been sticklers for strict separation, and I've only gotten stricter as I've gotten older. But that doesn't stop other people! I think the first time I saw someone curling up in bed with a laptop was 2000 or so, but I'm sure some 90s business travelers were doing it earlier.
The practice of having a TV in the bedroom (though not on the bed itself) (unless it's one of those tiny portable TVs with a handle on top maybe) is a little older than the Apple IIe, I think, as a widespread phenomenon.
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Date: 2019-02-07 03:39 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-02-07 04:20 pm (UTC)I am grateful for this opportunity to help preserve accurate images from the past.