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I mean it depends on what you mean by internet. There were BBSes but the world wide web didn’t really start taking traffic from the general public until 93. HTML hadn’t even been invented in 90.
The world wide web runs on top of the internet, but its not the same thing as the internet.
In the 1980s the internet existed, with forum-like things running on top it, but access to it wasn’t widely distributed.
BBSes just used the preexisting telephone network. (Which, yes, dial up internet access later did too, but in the case of dial up you’d be calling the number of an ISP, and afterward your connection would run over net infrastructure. In the case of a BBS you’d be dialing the person running the server directly.)
EDIT: you probably already know this, but just clarifying for others.