How did computers become a normal fixture in homes? What led from nobody having computers to it being a necessity? My current theory is email, that seems like the most convenient thing old computers provided.

I asked my mom what her family used their fist computer for and she said it was games (TI-99). That's another thing I noticed, the line between early home commuters and early game consoles was quite blurry.

The office suite. Being able to edit things without wite-out was an insane advantage that is taken for granted today. And household accounting. Going from budgeting on paper to using excel.
Status symbol and marketing. People bought the full kit with scanners, printers, speakers, etc.

Most people in the 80's who had computers got conned, those computers fucking sucked, their kids tricked them into getting them and all they did on them was play video games

dial-up internet and aol

early 80s only if a male adult in house was a turbo autist, mid-80s adult fooled by sinclair / commodore advertising to buy it for accounting but kids used it for games, early 90s because of the impression it made kids do better homework - office, encarta, etc, mid-90s internet (porn / amazon / email)

Sadly they aren't anymore, as many normies have moved to exclusively into pure consoomer goods such as smarthphones, tablets and smart tv's.

>>106159389 (OP)
Mom and dad were duped by TV into thinking buying little johnny a computer would make him pass his exams and get a good job. Instead it wrecked his life and nade him an incel weirdo whos still living with mom and dad and he's age 50

>>106159389 (OP)
Word, Excel, Powerpoint are amazing comparing to typewriter or even fucking handwriting.

>>106159753
Did the internet make incels in the 90s?

>>106159389 (OP)
>How did computers become a normal fixture in homes?
Microsoft Word
>What led from nobody having computers to it being a necessity?
Web and email

>>106159807
They always exist. Your radio, newspaper and TV tell you none of it to give you hope.

>>106159389 (OP)
>the line between early home commuters and early game consoles was quite blurry.
In France and Japan it was completely nonexistent. Games have always been the main reason normal people cared about computers.

>>106159389 (OP)
Back then people used computers in the kitchen.

Personal computers got popular in the mid 90s when people discovered the front side of the machine.

>>106159753
I'm quite voluntary celibate, thank you.

>>106159389 (OP)
GAMES

all the other things, word, excel, picture drawing was just excuse to get it, but the main purpose is GAEMS

*smugface* yeah dad i really need taht voodoo2 for you know school stuff ;) ;)

>>106159807
They always existed. They just died back in the 1900s by their 40s. Conditions like down syndrome were deadly.
I assume around the 1970s is when high function people started to live a lot longer. By the 90s your south park pc gamer stereotype probably existed

>>106159389 (OP)
GUIs
Growing network if not internet access.
Shedding of all the "toy" computers, centralizing around a few platforms.


>the line between early home commuters and early game consoles was quite blurry.
Most of us 80s computer nerds were likely Atari 2600 alums seeing personal computers as the next level.

Fun fact: in the 90's, 90% of internet bandwidth was spent on porn, and it's a big reason why there was huge demand to increase speeds and flesh it out

>>106159389 (OP)
>How did computers become a normal fixture in homes?
boomers are obsessed with talking to each other remotely because they are christian retards who police each other 24/7 for the jew

>>106159462
Some dumb kids only played games, others discovered BASIC programming and it got them into a career in computing.

People are truly getting conned today, buying a shitty new iPhone every 2 years that does the same stuff as before but somehow miraculously requires 2x the memory and computer resources to do, and that's locked down so you don't even control your own hardware you paid $1000 for, and it only runs a very limited selection of "apps"

>>106159389 (OP)
Computers were always headed to home use. They were just too expensive back then.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTdWQAKzESA

>>106161040
Not if I can help it