Back in 1989 not many people at Sheffield Uni even had access to email. There were a few Prime mini systems with dumb terminals. None of the PCs around were connected to Janet directly, they were just used as dumb terminals to connect to the Prime machines.

By the time I left in 1993 things were very different, lots of Sun workstations, Sun servers, PC Netware servers, SGI servers and hundreds of PCs all connected to the Internet proper.

For a while there was an odd situation where everyone was connected to the Internet, except the computer science department. They were convinced that it was full of hackers who couldn't be trusted to connect to the Internet, how wrong they were. Most of the compsci students had no idea about how to actually use a computer