If you've never read it before, you're in for a fun read - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_In

If you've never read it before, you're in for a fun read - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet Back then email was still the primary civilian use of the internet, although by the mid-80s BBS's and USENET were firmly entrenched. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletin_board_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletin_board_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet The early walled gateways (AOL, Compuserve, etc) and then the wider web as you know it didn't really take off until the early 90s.