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Originally Posted by DNSB
For what it may be worth, I spent much of my time 40 years ago staring at computer screens (1984) both at work and at home. They were a great improvement over a TTY model 33 and it's replacement the TTY model 43.
Admittedly, I was a proud owner/assembler of computers back in the 1970s. Fond memories of the SD Systems VDB 8024 video card with a custom character generator ROM emulating the Heath character set allowing my oldest to run various games.
As for internet, Youtube or social media? I remember using Compuserve and GEnie along with people's personal BBS systems in the early 80s. Then there was the birth of FidoNET in 1984. My BBS ran on various hardware incarnations for ~22 years from 1980 to 2002. Sadly no YouTube equivalent.
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Not quite the 70s but I had a ZX81 in 1981 followed by a Spectrum, Atari ST then PCs ever since. And I had a modem for the Spectrum so I've been on BBS's and their ilk for 40 years. So yes, I have spent quite a lot of time with my nose pressed to a screen over the years.
I guess we are unusual.
Andrew