For younger generations it's hard to contemplate what the internet looked like before they were born.
These days we're used to lightning fast broadband speeds and Wi-Fi connections as a normal part of everyday life. But it was back at the start of the 1990s that the internet was only just becoming available to people in Liverpool, mostly through universities.
The thought that it would be commonplace to access the internet in our own homes - never mind via a smart phone in our pockets would have seemed an outlandish fantasy. In the mid-'90s, if you were lucky enough to have internet at home, there was no broadband and connecting was via a desperately slow dial up service through a phone line.
