I became a computer programmer in 1981.
We hand-wrote the code on special pads, a bit like squared paper. The pads were A4, landscape. The sheets went off to the data prep section, where they were turned into punched cards, and returned to us, in a box a bit like a long show box. We then passed the box to the computer operators, who fed the cards into a mainframe computer. If you'd made a mistake in the syntax (eg a missing dot or comma or bracket), it all came back, and you'd use a hand punch to punch a replacement card or several. Tedious, labour intensive, and slow.
Then, great excitement when we got dumb terminals, and could type our code in directly! And it checked the syntax in moments, so we could correct it right away. Productivity for us programmers shot up, but the data prep jobs were no longer needed 
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Before I left that company (1986) something arrived called a One Per Desk. It was essentially a forerunner to the modern day PC. But as there was only one in the office, it wasn't a lot of use. It was on loan to different offices, on a rota, as a means of seeing if it was worth having. I got roped into helping to set it up and I recall we somehow managed to get Ceefax on it. There wasn't much else you could do with it at the time.
MIL retired in 1897 and bought herself an Amstrad word processor. She was a copy typist, using manual then electronic typewriters, then finally a word processor, shortly before she retired.
The earliest PC operating system I used was Windows 3.1, then Windows 98. Not sure when I first got an email address at work, but I think it was late 90s. I well remember Encarta on its multiple CDs on our home computer. We bought it from Tiny computers, and it came with a huge bundle of CDs - encyclopedias, games, etc. I was creating websites by 2001.
My parents were both dead by 1996 and never used a computer or the internet. My FIL used mainframe computers at work (corporate accounting), but although he lived until 2017, he never used a PC or a smartphone.
Interesting thread.