Amateurs. When I went there all there was was a big screen with green block letters, no highway or whatever magic non sense you’re talking about
PAC man , that was the real stuff. great graphics.
I’m a 2000s child and did this
I built my first website without access to internet. Just locally for me and my friends.
I’m certainly normally aged.
As a kid, all of us nerds got our own computers eventually after much begging. (Commodore 64s and such.)
And occasionally, we had the magical moments when we got to visit the occasional person who had a big computer. (PC clones)
No information superhighways yet!