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

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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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There wasn’t all THAT much construction to get it started really. I mean, my first internet connection was through a modem that quite simply used the existing telephone line. And there wasn’t all that much there yet either, when I first connected there weren’t even any graphical browsers yet.

But once the whole thing got started, it became a snowball effect between more people getting access, leading to more people being interested in putting content on the web, which makes it more interesting to connect etc.

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