Before internet, my parents bought me a commodore 64, I got a book from the library and tought myself BASIC. Made a ton of programs, including a game where you had to race (I had to draw the sprite that was the car using multiples of 2 calculations) and a bunch of ASCII scrolling down was the road, at the end you got to face a boss, who shot down (ASCII) stars. It also had a chess game, played it a lot with my brother, again I went to the library to get a book to teach me the rules, and taught my brother and sister, we all became pretty succesful at it. (I quit playing at age 16, and so did they)

I don't remember all I was doing around the time the internet came around, but at one point my best friend gave me a coupon for my birthday to buy a CD, I wasn't much into music so I bought starcraft with it. We could install it and play on different PCs with my code, so much fun was had. And lateron a lot was mIRC and downloading (horribly pixelated) movies.