| >I remember most teens and young adults (which is most people who used computers) would never buy any kind of software, music or video. I don't think it's true that "most people who used computers" were teens or young adults. Since we're talking about Windows 95, here is some mostly contemporary usage data from the 1997 US Census[0]. A few of the strongest predictors of computer usage for a household are income, education, and using a computer at work. Being older (55+) is a pretty strong negative correlation (along with some correlated characteristics like being widowed). I don't see a direct statistics tying computer usage to number of children, although the household size does indicate that houses with children probably are more likely to use a computer. Even just looking at the sample, about a third of households use a computer at work, at third don't, and a third don't work, which gives you a very large pool of people using computers who aren't teens or young people. I suspect it's more likely that many of the people on this board were a young person in the 90s if they were a person at all, and so it felt like many computer users were like them. In fact, plenty of not so young adults were using computers. PS: if by young person you just mean "under 50", I retract everything above and instead am confused by your definition. [0] https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/demo/tables/compute... , https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/demo/tables/compute... |