HISTORY
Imagine life before the Internet. No smartphones, no social networks, no Goge, no Netflix, Spotify, Amazon, Uber, Abnb, or even email. If you want to know the news, you must buy a newspaper. If you want to listen to music, you have to buy a CD. If you want to contact someone you’re not with, you have to call them.
Back in 1990, back in the dark ages, how did we get through those years?
The Internet is so pervasive today that it’s easy to forget that it’s still new. Twenty years ago, only about half of americans had heard of it; It was even an obscure, specialized computational science project, and its early developers probably had no idea what it would end up doing or how amazing its transformative power would be.
Four stages in the history of the Internet
3–High tide of development
4–Future
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