How the public was convinced to join the internet in the 90s

Question

For the internet to work, there must be cell towers everywhere, many servers built, and tunnels built with cables connecteted to every home.

How was the government/corporations convinced to start construction? How was the public convinced to start paying extra to get access to 10 websites and hope that it would take off?

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Answer 1

Cell towers??? Internet existed before there were data connections via cell.

We used dial-up modems connecting via landline phones to dial into local ISP’s. Then services like DSL that were always on, higher speed connections, came about that didn’t tie up phone line while online.