Mar
20
“Mouse Potato: A couch potato is someone who spends his or her days staring helplessly at a television set, and a ‘mouse potato’ is someone so captivated by the computer that he or she seldom travels far from it. The term came into use in 1994, about the time several game enthusiasts around the world died after spending marathon sessions before the computer without food or sleep - ‘mouse potatoes’ par excellence.”
The Word Origin Calendar, entry for Thursday, March 20, 2008.