The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.
I love mixing with comedians when I'm working with them, but when I'm not I don't feel the need to hang around with them.
Most of the people who had PCs did not have modems and could not use those PCs as communicating devices. They really were using them for spreadsheets or word processing or storing recipes or playing games or what have you.