Now it seems that everyone learns to use a keyboard but in the old days that was not the case.”
I think one of the differences was that we did all our classwork and tests using a paper and pen/pencil and wrote in cursive. Now everyone does everything on a computer and cursive is becoming a lost art.
Found that you can tell whether someone learned on a typing keyboard or on a computer keyboard by watching which keys they use when typing numbers. We old typewriter users still tend to use that top row of numbers. Newbies use the number pad on the right hand side of the keyboard.
I learned on a manual typewriter over fifty years ago but I use the pad on the right almost exclusively for numbers, probably because I used to use an old adding machine with that number keyboard and am used to it. I used to be very fast with the adding machine but I am much slower now on the computer.