Technology has certainly come on orders of magnitude over the years, I well remember in those long gone days trying to set up a home network with Windows ME and had a cell phone with an antenna LOL. Oh, and dial-up.
Yes, with Windows 95 and 98SE, and for $20 I bought a device that would enable me to answer the landline for about 30 secs without losing the Internet connection! Which was all I paid for Internet since AOL would always give me another 30 to 90 days when I called up to quit (which I would) until I actually found completely free ISP (freeisp.com) service. Only went high speed about 1999. Praise God.