[dcminter]

If you wanted to read at your couch or in the café it was the only viable option.

Reading at the desk was ok, but your CRT monitor was often low res and somewhat flickery (depending how sensitive to that you are).

Laptops (once they existed) had hilariously short battery life and dismal lcd based screens. I wouldn't recommend it.

I think I stopped printing stuff out pretty much exactly when laptops got good enough to use instead.