Tools like FileMaker, Dreamweaver and others empowered regular people to do "personal computing" and allowed them to help themselves build the tools they needed

Tools like FileMaker, Dreamweaver and others empowered regular people to do "personal computing" and allowed them to help themselves build the tools they needed. It seems to me like that was a golden age of genuine personal computing that went by too fast and with many avenues left unexplored.