mkjayakumar said:To add to Nubo's point: The same was true for high speed Internet which is now seen as ubiquitous , but just about 10 years ago was unavailable in vast swaths of the nation. Availabilty of 3G (and now 4G) has completely changed the landscape, that in the US I am always connected all the time in (almost) all the places.
None of that you could have imagined 10 years ago and if AOL's push of their cheap dial-in capabilities did not materialize, then we would not be here.
It wasn't AOL. It was Clinton opening the internet to commercial use. The Internet was first created in the 70s by a military think tank. It was used only by Universities working on government projects and government contractors working on the same projects for years until Clinton decided to open it up during his run for his second term. AOL's cheap dial up connections was for their "on line service" not the internet. COMPUSERVE was another of those "on line service". AOL added internet to their services as an add on.
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