Check out what the internet looked like in 1996.

In 1995 I had a summer job working for an early ISP in New Zealand. We had banks of 28.8k modems which shared a 64kbps connection managed by a Sun workstation. The company only had four people including me and I was the customer support department. Getting connected in those days was difficult for most people so I used to go to each new customer’s house or business and configure their system, and explain a few things. Most people’s PCs didn’t have a modem so the first step was to install one, and then install copies of Netscape for the web and Eudora for email. We charged by the megabyte. I remember that people had trouble grasping the concept of the “back” and “forwards” buttons. They didn’t understand that you can’t go back until you’ve visited at least one prior page, and you can’t go forward until you’ve gone back. I also once trained a bunch of Toshiba New Zealand executives about how to use email and the web.

Good times …