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Internet's older than you think. Tim Berners Lee, the dude who invented the World Wide Web, opened it up to the public a year earlier.
I said arguably because people will argue over exactly what they mean by 'pre-Internet'.
Is your metric the existence of a network transmission standard used by a few university research centers?
When the WWW standard was invented and opened up?
When over 50% of Americans had a home device capable of connecting to the web?
When over 50% of Americans spent an average of X hours a day using the internet?
... etc.
*Al Gore
And we were using BBS and college FTP sites with Gopher in 92-93 when we got AOL at our house, but friends of mine had Compuserve or Prodigy even before that.