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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Firstly, cell towers are not required for the internet to work. Cell towers only help cellphones get on the internet (and everything else they do), however cellphones were only a prediction by Nikola Tesla when the internet was being developed.
It started a very long time ago with several universities connecting to one another. This was a system developed by the United States government/defense skunk works called DARPA, the system was called ARPANET.
Many years later, it was made available to the general public in a form that you would probably not recognize today, and it has evolved since then, gradually, with each individual, corporation, or whatever, adding to it.
Internet service providers are tasked with laying the connections between homes and business. They pay to install the infrastructure, we pay bills and taxes to support that.
As far as how the government was convinced to be on board, well, as I said, they developed it through DARPA. Most people in the US were convinced by AOL handing out a seemingly global ecological disaster waiting to happen in the form of so many trial CDs. I’m not joking these things were used as coasters, frisbees, they were littering the streets, just all over in the 90s. Anywhere you turned you saw an AOL CD.
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