A long time ago

I was at work yesterday when it occurred to me that I spend my entire day sitting in front of the computer. So do lots of other people. Some time back - like maybe 12 years ago, many people did not really use the computer at work. I remember because that was my first holiday job in an office and there was only one computer that had Windows on it. I would play around with it when I had the chance. I can't imagine how that would be like now working manually using what...foolscap pads?? How would we consolidate hundreds of companies? If we had to send the computer for repair or something, we would just have nothing to do.