Living in the future with a big screen

I went into the study after a client call to check the status of something running in our homelab. I didn’t have my laptop on me to SSH, so I unplugged the 15-inch LCD from my B&W Power Mac G3, and connected it to the server. I was typing away on that for a solid ten minutes, before remembering I was also in the middle of something back in the home office nook. So I left the room and went back to it. My main work area has a 27-inch 4K Dell monitor. Not as good pixel density as the 21.5-inch true 4K LG I used to have, but it’s perfectly serviceable as a Retina/HiDPI screen. Point is, I sat down in front of it, and did a double take. This monitor is huge. And the resolution is so high. I can fit so much on it. I used the equivalent of that 15-inch LCD in both LCD and CRT form for more than a decade as a kid, and I considered that normal. Even my laptops well into the 2010s had equivalent displays. If I were somehow able to plonk my past self in front of my current setup, past me would…