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No... Things literally were simpler back then as information moved a lot slower and the internet was far less privatised, if at all.
Your chat logs were saved to your own local drive, not a cloud, and you could delete them. Social media was just your web page you made for free on Geocities or Angelfire. Email spam was mostly chain mail. There were no bots whatsoever cluttering the internet. And so on.
And, FWIW, there were no such things as apps. Just programs. Apps started with the smart phone.
FWIW, people were talking about "killer apps" for various platforms back in the 1980s.
I don't know what to tell you. It certainly wasn't a word I or any one I spoke to used to describe programs.
No one you knew read PC Magazine? There was an article from 1989 (and quite a few more in the early to mid 90s).
OTOH, I do agree that "program" was more common than "application".
Mostly -- your comment about "no apps" dredged up the phrase "killer apps" in my brain somehow.
Nope. I was a kid around the 80s/90s and we had no dedicated computer teachers; although universities probably had access to those types of publications. That information was pretty niche in Australia for regular people, especially kids, and we were always at least 2 years behind the US on everything.
Ahem IRC...
Oh, true. Those bots were not clutter though, IMO.
Haha this thread is bringing back memories.