I didn't start using unix/vms systems until the early 90s in college, which was at least a couple years before your "$50/month access to the internet", if we co

I didn't start using unix/vms systems until the early 90s in college, which was at least a couple years before your "$50/month access to the internet", if we count aol and compuserve, and by that time it was most certainly the case that the era of "[the] only people who have access to a computer are people who devoted their careers to it" was long since passed.