Why did so few people in the 1980's use email or online computer systems?
I find this odd. Lots of people in the 1980's had computers. And almost all of those computers were capable of being hooked up to a modem (many had modems built into the machine, too) or some other computer networking system.
But the
While many people had computers, and these computers were capable of having modems (very, very few had modems built in), the cost of online services was very, very high.
I remember when I got my first modem in 1984. The biggest online service
