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DGUtley
05-14-2021, 06:24 AM
How the personal computer broke the human body... (https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3dda7/how-the-personal-computer-broke-the-human-body?utm_source=pocket&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pockethits) Decades before 'Zoom fatigue' broke our spirits, the so-called computer revolution brought with it a world of pain previously unknown to humankind.

Late in 1980, Henry Getson of Cherry Hill, New Jersey wrote in to his favorite computer hobbyist magazine, (https://archive.org/details/softalkv1n05jan1981/page/10/mode/2up)Softalk (https://archive.org/details/softalkv1n05jan1981/page/10/mode/2up). Getson described himself as a computer user of “less than expert status,” and expressed his appreciation for Softalk’s introductory tone and accessible articles, especially for someone like him, who had recently bought a personal computer and was just learning to program. His letter closed with a short question, a stray thread dangled from the hem of heaping praise: “P.S. Have any remedies for tired eyes?”

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