How did you live?
I remember that sometime in the late 80s or maybe it was in 1990 we visited a computer lab with my school and we were all amazed that we could communicate from a computer to another in the same room. So internet definetely wasn't common.
From my memory of things it started to become more readily available 95 mainly. Some of my friends started to get powerful 14.4kbps modem. At that time it was pretty hard to look at porn...it was taking literally 2 min to download 1 picture.
When I was in high school (back in the Renaissance) we were the first school around to get a computer. And there was no windows...it was MS Dos all the way baby. We were also the first school to have lights and running water. Good times, good times.
You were in school back when people thought the earth was flat and the reason it got dark at night was because a dragon swallowed the sun.