I was very late to the party.
My FIRST computer, bought on layaway at a pawn shop, was a TANDY 386 with Windows 3.11. I was so excited it had a CD-ROM, lol. Of course, everyone else was upgrading 486’s to pentiums around that time. This thing had a 25 mhz processor and about 100 MG harddrive. (kept getting bad sectors all the time though)
That thing wouldn’t do anything until I added more ram (to 28MB?), a new modem (33.6 kpbs) and a new sound card. I remember signing up for a $100 a year internet service, they had to mail me a floppy with a browser (I had none), it was Netscape (1.12?), one of the first ones I think, lol)
I knew I was behind but I didn’t care.
I loved games. I had to delete a game to play another one, lol. Tank! and Gunship 2000 (off of 2 floppies) were my favorite, they were 3-d... of a sort.
I recall a friend of mine from junior high who had an Amiga and my other geek friends marveled at his graphics! I recall the times when another friend and I would spend time on our local BBS. There was a guy in my junior high school who was proud of the fact that he could gain access to nudie pics via modem; he was thrilled that it took only half an hour receive and print a centerfold on his B&W dot matrix printer.