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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It was not to get access to websites. It was to get access to computer networks in general, and at 1st the Internet consisted of a lot of different services other than just HTML.

Academic institutions were among the very 1st adopters, because it is very easy to exchange documents to that way and it essentially allows all libraries to function as a single library. Next were big corporations that had a lot of documents at different locations all around the world. Getting on the Internet allowed them to function as if they had just one big office.

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