I'm from '78. I was raised by my grandmother, without a computer. Kids should go play outside. My dad however, was a computer freak from the early days (like, he taught himself to program in just about every new computer language that was created, and he even worked as a tester for the very first version of Pascal (on the ZX Spectrum, yes, Pascal is that old), and when I went to visit him I fondly remember playing on the Sinclair ZX Spectrum 64k with him. I remember text based adventures like 'the Hobbit', and 'the Colossal Big Adventure'. Not much later, he got a Sinclair QL, followed by an 8086XT. Makes me wonder, whatever happened to Sinclair? That XT later became my first computer, when he donated it to me when I came to live with him, and he bought a 80286. This was around the time the first version of windows became available. We tried it and deleted it quickly afterward. DOS much better. When Windows NT came out however, my dad switched to that. I had that 8086 for a long time. My next computer was a (80)486, followed by a Pentium 2. I switched from desktop computer to laptop once I went to university. Internet indeed wasn't really a thing yet in the early nineties. I remember waiting for 78 hours for a pc version of streetfighter to finish downloading on something worse than a 14k4 dial up modem. I think the total download was 12 megabytes or something. That was considered quite a large game back then. Things took forever back in the days. Not to mention your average level loading screen wait time haha.
One thing I did miss out on however, were the consoles. I never had a commodore / atari / nintendo / PS1. In my university years, I got a PS2 though.