We had a ubiquitous continental data network back then. You can see it in operation in the old historical film, "You've Got Mail". The floppy installation disks were so plentiful they probably form a sedimentary stratum future geologists will use to identify the era.
That was 1995. In 1991, we had the ubiquitous intercontinental phone network, but overseas connections were >$1/minute and data rate was only 9600 baud.
Still, email and usenet sort of worked. I have sent my first international email in 1993, from a school lab in my home town in Siberia. In larger cities, I bet there were ways to do it even earlier.
There was a satellite ISP for a time. The satellite box had a modem in it and your outbound traffic went out over the modem and the inbound traffic came down to the dish.
Me too. Atari, toward the end, had even mastered color vector displays that look excellent!
Look for clips of "Star Wars" in action.
The 70's was anni interesting time. Atari was employing dynamic vector displays capable of real time motion.
Tektronix was using vectors with their storage CRT tech. Basically the vectors got painted onto the tube phosphors, thus displaying the image without the need to refresh.
4k resolution (vector coordinate space) ended up being a thing!
Your last line immediately made me think. probably in near future, techies of the future would say something similar about our achievements, maybe gpt, or 4 qbit quantum computer.
(Bet they didn't think at the time that techies of the future would be watching it in 2024 on the ubiquitous global data network.)