You are of course correct; mea culpa.
We had internet; what we didn't yet have was HTTP.
We had internet; what we didn't yet have was HTTP.
And we didn't yet have a graphical web browser that ran on Windows or Mac. And MSDOS was AFAIK never adapted to allow the computer to interact with the user while something was downloading or uploading. (I.e., it lacked the necessary kind of multitasking.)