email, file transfers, netnews (usenet). X-Windows and Andrew started mid-1980s. AFS relied on DNS to figure out where cellservers were. Gopher started 1989-1

email, file transfers, netnews (usenet). X-Windows and Andrew started mid-1980s. AFS relied on DNS to figure out where cellservers were. Gopher started 1989-1990. ftp was in wide use. There was a lot of activity on the Internet well before the web started. Tiny compared to today of course.