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Kind of. But, without the "cool" factor. You were a geek, a nerd. Computers were for nerds for a while, the internet was like a computer library which were also only for nerds. Towards the late 90's, it started to become cool and then suddenly everyone and their grandpa had a computer and the internet.
It was a bit more difficult back then, too. I was dialing into Seattle (long distance) for my closest POP for the internet. Had to use trumpet for Windows because it didn't have a native dialer, and Mosaic for a browser. Before that, it was all BBS's. Always fun finding new sites (and we also had a "internet phonebook" that was a physical book with a list of most websites).
Young me finding a BBS that had pictures of girls and waiting for that one picture to fill the screen just to find out her top in on. lol kids have no idea.
Oh man that progressive loading... Super pixelated then slightly less then ... Wait is that... No wait it's boobs then oh wait nope. Then your mom picked up the phone and it was lost anyway.
Exactly lol