I didn't get my first home computer until 1995; it was some sort of early Power Mac, I guess. Until then, I had been perfectly happy using the computers we had at work. In 1984, when I started while still in high school, the computers we had weren't individual Macs and you did not need a mouse to operate them. All cursor movement was done with keystrokes. God, I loved that. A mouse is fine, I guess, but I never typed or worked faster than on those old terminals. Every single paper I had to write in college was written, and then typeset, on those old machines. It wasn't until the early 1990s that the company finally started transitioning to Macs and mouses; at first, I only needed to work on the Macs once a week ... and those first few times trying to use the mouse were excruciating. I wanted the mouse to go one place, it went the other. I wanted it to go here, it went there. It was maddening. I wanted to shove it in a mouse trap and smash it to bits on many occasions.
As for the Internet, we first started hearing whispers about it in the early 1990s ... maybe 1993 or so. We had one young girl in the office who was offering to teach people how to get their own account/address through the university. I don't even think she was using the term "e-mail" at that point. And so she led a few of us out there into cyberspace, on some sort of shoestring dial-up connection that barely worked, from one -- count 'em one -- machine in the office that had access. You could maybe stay on there 10 minutes, maybe 15 minutes before you just lost the connection. I think the first place I navigated to was a theater-related forum; it might have been rec.arts.theatre.musicals. I posted, asking if anyone had a certain souvenir program I was searching for and, lo and behold, someone had it, I bought it, and I was hooked.
