My computing education started in about 1979 when I went to upper school and the maths teacher did a lunchtime computing club. We were doing BASIC and I took to it quickly. We did not even have a computer at the school and used a Teletype to connect to the local college machine. This is my maths and computing teacher who worked at the Open University for a while.
I knew about Smalltalk, but I don't think I ever used it. I got into some object oriented stuff later on.
Back then we couldn't imagine the web and all it would bring. Computers were just for the geeks, like me.