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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Nobody was on the internet via cell towers in the 90’s. Cellular technology was analog and relatively rudimentary at the time the internet was gaining popularity. The main technology for most people accessing the internet in its early stages was via dial up modem (phone calls to a device that turned voice frequencies into data). This was literally a 56 Kilobit connection at best although I myself connected at 14K for a few years. At that speed it took a couple minutes to download a simple image. Games and videos took hours. My first foray onto the internet was to update software on a hand held data cable analyzer around 1993. After that, I used America Online (AOL) to access chat rooms and other curated information. It wasnt until about 1995 that I realized, “Wait, I dont need AOL to access the internet, I just need a dial-up connection with some service and Internet Explorer or Firefox”. That was a big eye opener for me since at the time I thought the internet “was” AOL. So to answer your question, it was a social (chat) and curiosity thing at first but then web pages started to get more helpful and focused. Once Google came around (actual humans were indexing information manually at first), you could find information very easily. Before that, if you searched for something like “how to swing a golf club” you got results all over the map. In some cases, it could be something completely unrelated to your search simply because it contained the word “club”. But Google definitely changed that over time.
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