Gone extinct

I think Home Computing never took off until computers had something useful that laymen could use them for and they were easy enough for non-technical person's to use. Once things like Windows 95, AOL with Instant Messaging and then with gateways out to the Internet became more prevalent, then you saw more layman using computers and they became more acceptable. The 70's, 80's and early 90's they were still geekdom realm products and no teenage girl, stay at home mom or basement "future" blogger would be caught dead being known to have a computer. As for computers in the 80's and such... home computing's problem was people wanted the same features as the computers at work, to be at work with an 80 column system, 10mb HD, good quality software and then come home to an 8bit computer, with floppies, 40 column video and wannabe attempts at business-type applications just didn't cut it.