> nobody had internet at home There were no residential ISPs in the early days. You had to work or study somewhere with internet access. And home connectivit

> nobody had internet at home There were no residential ISPs in the early days. You had to work or study somewhere with internet access. And home connectivity was all dial-up. DSL was completely unaffordable. And even then, home computers lacked a TCP/IP stack, so you’d be dialling into a server using something like z-modem, and using that to access the internet.