it was a kitchen job at that time and with the shutdown in place i would have had “personal free time”.

i was involved with a computer scene some years earlier than that. neither were videos or emails a use-case at the time, yet you could have playful and educating interactions with the available devices.

Hell, imagine if covid had hit 25 years earlier. The fuck would’ve we been doing?

playing computer games. organizing the CD collection. watching TV shows. mastering a skill like programming or image editing on the computer system at hand. masturbating to VHS porn. having long, undisturbed landline conversations. reading books.