> It’s the reason why the Internet took a long time to take off: using the Internet on a desktop computer sucks. When smartphones took off, so did the Internet.

> It’s the reason why the Internet took a long time to take off: using the Internet on a desktop computer sucks. When smartphones took off, so did the Internet. This is not true, the Internet took off in the U.S. in the mid-90s: https://ourworldindata.org/internet https://ourworldindata.org/internet The driving force was the WWW, not smartphones. Personally, I would say exactly the opposite, the only advantage a smartphone has over a desktop computer for Internet usage is portability, otherwise the experience is worse in every way.