The net was indeed around five years ago, and I was using it long before that.
BUT...!!
It was an archaic collection of text-only files using a unix-based architecture that required the mental dexterity of Stephen Hawking to navigate. Archie, Gopher, FTP, JANET, to name but a few (all of which survive incidentally), but all of which should have been put out of their misery a long time ago. The WWW was in its infancy, and graphic intensive sites just didn't exist. The concept of multi-media would have had us laughing in the aisles as we downloaded it at 1k a minute !
If command-line unix browsing in a single-line editor is your idea of the 90s internet (woohoo !) then by all means carry on !
Cheers