1995, I work 3 days a week for Amazon but need some sort of computing device at home when I'm parenting my kid. I have a nice SPARCstation in the office, and money is actually a little tight, so I'm not getting one of those for home use. I'd already used NCD X Terminals in my previous job at UWashington CS&E, so we got one of them, connected it via a 96k modem (the NCD's could do this, using SLIP), and I was able to dial into "the office" and have a relatively normal X session in my home.
OTOH ... we had already started using the first Linux system at amazon by that time, and a few years later, when a 25MHz 486 running Redhat became the first computer I actually owned (I resisted for that long!), the idea of an X Terminal seemed a bit quaint and limited.