This is really interesting and brought back some memories for me. In 1992 I received my first internet account via a local public school initiative. I could dia

This is really interesting and brought back some memories for me. In 1992 I received my first internet account via a local public school initiative. I could dial-up to a county number and use gopher for something like 30 minutes a day. The first month I had this access, I went to a gopher site in Europe somewhere, and not understanding the tech at all shut it all down and waited for the enormous phone bill to arrive. The phone bill was normal and I suddenly understood that the internet was something special. In 1995 I became an exchange student to Russia, and the entire 3 month exchange, I saw approximately 1 computer. I made 2 phone calls to my family from Moscow, but where I was living in Russia was 1,000 miles East from there and there was 1 scratchy phone sitting outside in a phone booth for the entire 12 building multiblock of Stalinist apartment buildings. It could not dial outside of the city as far as I understood it. Fast forward a few years, I'm now married and my wife and I are planning a road trip. We get printouts of mapquest routes, have a copy of the local road atlas (a huge book) and a copy of AAA tripticks for our trip. There was no mobile internet that was within the price range of mortals. A few more years forward and we're in Ireland, mobile internet is available in some areas, but expensive, so I download offline maps to my mobile phone and get turn-by-turn that way. Last year I got Google Fi, went to Europe, got off the plane and made calls, texted with friends, used the internet just like normal, booked AirBnB rooms, got train schedules and got turn-by-turn GPS directions for all of the countries we were road tripping in and it all worked flawlessly. Absolutely insane.