Hey, I had email in '89, too! Okay, so it was only for that given BBS, but still!
Didn't really get internet access until... '93? Even then, it was good old text-based. I still remember the fun of newsgroups and whatnot back then... and using a shell on a Linux box (or BSD or whatever) to do this stuff
oooooo...all the time I spent on newsgroups...