Sooo this is my completely ignorant guess of what life is like in Turkey compared to the U.S., but was having internet access common in Turkey back in 1999?
Definitely not as common, or cheap, as it was right now, but yes, it was common. I had been going online at home for 2 years before I found nintendodolphin.net.
Although it will probably never compare with the US, in both categories