You’re right. I can remember using Fido-net BBSes through a 300 baud Hayes modem. That wasn’t the Internet. I can also remember when this new “toy” called Mosaic came out...what does it have that Usenet and ftp don’t? LOL
“BBSes through a 300 baud Hayes modem.”
Yes, I remember the BBS system, but I was seriously limited
by living in the country and having to pay long distant
charges for a telco line. Not much fun running 300 baud at 20 cents per min.
I did, however run radio teletype, which would be the early form of internet, and that was in the 1960s, worldwide, and to multiple stations at the same time.
We even had teletype art, images made from combination of letters and symbols. From Tennessee, I could communicate by
RTTY, all over the world.