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.
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.