18th December 2010, 7:49 PM
Eh, maybe, but people don't take an interest in computers (upgrading them, worrying about specs, etc) in the same way they do cars. Most of them have one to do things like check facebook. Internet is really the main appeal for a computer for a common person, not much else. They were probably used more for word processing pre-internet, but I'm probably talking out of my ass.