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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The early internet used phone lines, which already ran pretty much everywhere. In the really early days, you bought a device that you placed your physical phone handset into, which turned the data you wanted to send/receive into sounds to send over the phone line. Eventually this got upgraded to integrated modems, but the idea was the same.
This was slow and inconvenient (someone calling you on the phone could interrupt the 1-hour process of downloading a single image), but even that experience of the internet was enough to convince people to start using some faster intermediary technologies (DSL, satellite internet) which are now also pretty much defunct.
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