Funny how now that 4K monitors are on the cusp of becoming mainstream, ahistorical geeks are coming out of the woodwork telling us how “no one needs that” and it’s “useless because no one can tell the difference.” Of course, they mean they can’t tell the difference.

I and many, many others very much can tell the difference of course.

What makes it funny about it is that I’ve been using computers and reading about them for a really long time now — long before the internet was a consumer item — and I remember when “high-resolution” monitors came out the first time around. That is, around 25 years ago.

There were innumerable articles about how “no one needs 800×600 and certainly not 1024×768″ and more about how that resolutions so high are just useless, make your computer slow, etc.

It’s exactly the same now. Exactly. You could dig up those old articles out of Byte magazine and all the other long-defunct computer magazines of that era and change only a few words and no one could tell which one was written nearly three decades ago and which was written now.

Isn’t it interesting how some who consider themselves technologically competent fight the hardest against the advancement of technology?