I prefer attaching 'files' to 'e-mails', too. Though in my day we searched on Altavista using Netscape, after waiting on that dial-up to connect out Pentium II powered computers to the internet so we could create our Geocities websites. But before that we used telnet to archie.funet.fi over a 1200 baud modem and posted on usenet... but waaaay in my day you were considered cool if you wrote your website on Notepad.. and we were considered "Elite" if we could dial into other computers with our phone handsets, using cradled receivers that were attached to our phone lines and computers. Here's the comic by Matt Silverman:
