In 1994 I was a freshman at college.  The campus had recently been wired for data, so we had an always on internet connection in the dorms.  Despite that most of my activity was local/offline on my 486 dx2 playing Mortal Kombat.   I recall using gopher to retrieve a radar image during a snowstorm and accessing my files on the "cloud" at the computer lab, but that's about it.  The internet was there, but without a browser it wasn't much like what we think of now.
By 1998 things had changed alot.  Win 95/98 IE/Netscape made it much more useful and simple to use the internet and sites began to proliferate.  I had dropped out to take a 35k job at a search engine optimization company (which seemed like alot at the time) that quickly went out of biz, but my connections from that job led to other connections that have kept me working for the 20 years since.

tldr; if it's 1994,  buckle up, things will be unrecognizable in 4 years.