Re: Do today's kids remember a time before the internet?
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Originally Posted by Bryan X
And that even as late as Oct, 1992 (15 years ago), a publication like Time -- reporting on the upcoming year 2000-- completely missed how revolutionary the Web would become-- to the point of not even mentioning it. I just find that pretty amazing.  |
You have to remember it was only by the early 1990's that they finally allowed the commercialization of the Internet, which allowed people not affiliated with the US government, the Department of Defense or universities to get onto the Internet on a really large scale. It wasn't until arrival of Windows 95 in August 1995 that the Internet really started to takeoff, since Windows 95 had something built-in that was important for Internet access: SLIP/PPP access control to log onto the Internet. Before Windows 95, you had to install a third-party program for SLIP/PPP access control, and few people wanted to download such a program. It was also at this time that dial-up modems started to go up in download speeds, from 1200 bps common in the late 1980's all the way up to 56 kbps by 1996 with the V.90 standard, which made it possible to many people to read more graphics-oriented World Wide Web pages.
Broadband technologies such as ADSL and cable modems started to arrive in the late 1990's, but only with the development of better technology to increase the range of ADSL and cable modem access after 2000 that broadband started to become widely available to most metropolitan areas in the USA (in fact, I couldn't get ADSL at where I live now until 2004!).
