In my "youth" there was no internet. The phone was in the hall and never rung unless a family member had an accident, died, or it was Christmas and you had the obligatory call to relatives in Australia. TV had three channels all of which closed down before 12.30am with either a test card, nothing at all or "Teletext or Ceefax" Until around 7.00am.
Home computers came with 1k of RAM and 16k of ROM (that held the OS, such as it was) The RAM was used to program the thing in BASIC or Assembly language. You could load software via audio cassette into the 1k memory. They had a monochrome display and had to be plugged into the coax aerial socket in the back of your telly. Once it was switched off (ie you pulled the power jack) it reverted to the state it was out of the box. Nothing could be saved on it and only saved to said audio cassette.
Rainy Sunday afternoons in winter were spent playing cards, dominoes, cluedo or Monopoly with friends and family. Sunny summer sundays were spent in the woods or park getting sunburnt. Home by dark or else. When said home computer arrived all Sundays were spent "POKING" in hex characters into a "REM" statement above a flag in the 1k RAM called RAM_TOP to make rudimentary space invaders that crashed on RUNNING. A bit later these same Zilog Z80 based computers became colour, got 48K memories and had rudimentary high res graphics. A 48k game or other thing used to take 5minutes to load from audio cassette, entire weekends were spent entering Assembly language or Hex code into it to make a maze game or platform game.
Home tech improved in leaps every five years, not five weeks. A VHS video recorder was regarded as cool, a BETAMAX one even cooler, and music was played from a vinyl disc or recorded from the radio using the same audio cassette recorder that was used for the computer.
I was young, very young, and thought I knew it all. Now I am approaching middle age and realise I actually know very little, but a heck of a lot more than I did.