Well, there was no WWW (there was the Internet, which meant email - though think of accessing your email from a green and black terminal window - and BBSes, but

Well, there was no WWW (there was the Internet, which meant email - though think of accessing your email from a green and black terminal window - and BBSes, but everything was incredibly incredibly slow), there were no mobile devices (well, there was the apple newton, but practically nobody had one; and there were cell phones - but they were huge devices without a screen like your current phone), pagers were the main way to communicate when away from a landline, etc. Basically, desktops were where it was at. If you were a programmer, you were almost certainly creating software for desktop computers or mainframes. But, 30 years ago was even before Windows 95. It would have been around the era of Windows 3.1.