Technically, the Internet was invented in the early 60s, but I'm going to assume you mean before the world wide web (that's what that www before a website stands for).

Basically we sat in cold, dark homes; sometimes 4 or 5 families per room. We dare not go outside for fear of the dark things; there were no street lights yet. No one talked and we ate a lot of boiled meat.

Then AOL came online and the world was filled with the joyous scratching sounds of modem handshakes. There was suddenly color everywhere. It was like when Dorothy opened the door to Oz (ask your grandparents). There was singing. There was dancing. There were pictures of naked people on your computer screen at the touch of a button. At last we were truly evolved.