Predicting the future is a tricky game but compuserve had a pretty accurate stab at it in 1982 prior to the Internet and the widespread use of home computers. The full advert as a PDF is here.
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Up the hill backwards 
I first signed onto CompuServe in 1985, and stayed for about six years. It was a remarkable place, but the wired world was changing faster than they were, and finally they gave up.
Blimey, I don’t think we’d have had anything like an equivalent in the UK in 1985. Teletext and prestel via the TV (that dates me) were probably as cutting edge as it got back then unless the elites were using something us prols hadn’t got access to.
Well, it was pricey for this prole: $6 US for an hour of connect time at the slowest available connection speed. (You could connect faster, if your hardware permitted, but they would charge you more: 2400 bps, eight times the baseline 300-bps speed, was $22 an hour.) Burning up $200 a month online was absurdly easy.
Oooh lightening speeds. I don’t think I got on-line until around 1994-95 originally trying Apple’s shortlived e-world which eventually became the much lamented AOL. I think I would have started with a 9600 bps modem and in the early days you paid a monthly fee (£12-£15) as well as your phone connection charges which soon racked up the costs. I think America was way ahead of the rest of the world with connectivity as when I first got connected it seemed that Americans dominated everything and there were so many ‘ordinary people’ already there whereas home sourced contacts tended to be people like myself who were there because of work or niche technical reasons (OK, geeks).