How to use the internet, 1994 version

It’s interesting to look back 20 years and see what people thought of certain things. The internet is definitely no exception as it has taken over a large chunk of many lives around the world. Here’s what they thought of it two decades ago.

Back in 1994, the Internet was the next big thing in technology — hot enough that TIME did a cover story on it, but so unfamiliar that we had to begin by explaining what it was. (“…the world’s largest computer network and the nearest thing to a working prototype of the information superhighway.”)