The UK realized computers were significant and developed a massive education programme with its own computer (the BBC Micro). By 1986, the BBC Micro's successor

The UK realized computers were significant and developed a massive education programme with its own computer (the BBC Micro). By 1986, the BBC Micro's successor has an 8MHz ARM (yes that ARM) CPU. Who knows where we would have been if we'd had cheap fiber, rather than acoustic couplers. Fortunately I went to college. So I got to play with http in 1993 at Cambridge. Then myself, and every other nerd I know, fucked off to the USA. Not fiber, but at least we had internet at the office. I bought my first domain in '95 and put a stupid website on it. >Back in 1990 the internet wasn't significant Yeah, you're right. Best to wait until it is significant before paying any attention to it. Wouldn't want to go starting an online book store or search engine in the '90s. The fact is, the UK did know computers and networking were significant. But that evil psychopath Thatcher didn't care.