Once upon a time, all it took to have a computing setup worthy of praise was owning anything modern enough to escape the gravitational pull of the beige plastic heresy to hardware design that riddled home PCs of the early 2000s.
Having a second monitor on your desk was, at one point, akin to that scene in Richie Rich where he reveals an in-house McDonald’s to his visiting ruffian friends. It was a marker of serious gaming or productivity intentions and a flex on those single-screened peasants who had yet to partake in the great screen real-estate expansion of the 2010s.
