BITNET was almost parallel.
It was so College Professors could work on thesis together easier.
I had an email account in 1985 (PROFS).
In 1987 we were living in Mexico City and paying our state-side bills by a dial-up service to our bank. We were using a Kaypro Lunchbox computer at the time. Not quite Internet, but pretty darn close. We also had an IBM mini-laptop that ran MS Windows on 8 megs of RAM. That was back in 1991, 1992 or some such. Dinosaur.