Myself said:
That was in the days when all of the Netherlands was connected to the Internet via a single 128Kbps leased line to Virginia.
LOL are you serious? That's crazy.
Nope, I'm serious.
In the eighties, it was forbidden to use the Internet for commercial use. That changed in 1989. The old Arpanet backbone was replaced with a new NSFNet backbone. The first commercial ISPs were founded (like UUnet). And the Netherlands (and other european countries) finally connected to the Internet. (Before that, people only used UUCP for mail and news).
I started my 2nd job in April 1990 at a University (cs.vu.nl, home of Andy Tanenbaum). We were connected via 2Mbps to cwi.nl. And cwi.nl had a 128 Kbps leased line to UUnet in the USA. All of the Netherlands were connected via that link. But you must realize, in those days there were only 15-20 sites in the whole country connected to the Internet. Half of them were universities. A few companies (like Philips and OCE copiers). And some weird site, like a random hospital. I remember, because you could do "host -l nl." and you would see the whole list of toplevel .nl domains. The Internet backbone in the US itself consisted of T1 lines (1.5 Mbps only).
In 1991 or 1992 cwi.nl (and thus the whole of the Netherlands) connected to CERN in Switzerland, which was part of the NSFNet backbone, via a T3 link (45Mbps). But I think half of Europe was connected via that one single T3.
Bandwidth use to be expensive. Only when the Internet was booming, in the mid/late nineties, phone companies were encouraged to actually put more cables in the ground (and across the ocean). If it had been up to the phone companies, we'd all still have 64 Kbps X.25 links where we pay per call and per byte.
But yes, in 1990 all of the Netherlands were connected via 128 Kbps. I remember X11R4 was released (graphical unix software). The source-code was something like 60 MB. That was considered so much, that people set up european mirrors before the software was officially released. Because 60 MB was considered so large, it was unheard of to ftp that across the ocean. It was a big event, and the largest case of online software distribution ever. 60MB.