Lots of people had computers in the 1980s. Not just "rich people". There were even dozens of magazines about computers that you could find in any bookstore or newsstand. There were stores in every city where you could buy software for computers in the 1980s. You generally didn't have access to the Internet (which certainly did exist even if the Web didn't) unless you were at a university, but other online venues existed in the 1980s such as dial-up bulletin board systems. I got my first modem in 1983.