Was it really only 25 years ago.

I first encountered "the internet" in college, 1983. It was just on campus, connecting the various "computer labs". Remember them? It was almost unheard of to own your own computer, so you went to rooms where computers were available to use.

Some of the computers were connected to phones lines that could (GASP!) contact computers all over the USA. I never played on those... err, I mean do research.