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The bar for getting online is so much different we just get a full cross section of society. Many homeless people have internet access via a smartphone today, a
by kortilla 4y ago
The bar for getting online is so much different we just get a full cross section of society. Many homeless people have internet access via a smartphone today, and in the 90s it was basically just upper middle class, rich people, and university students.
- antod 4y agoThe technical bar was higher - the article itself had notable people seemingly proud of (with a little trauma?) getting their SLIP connections working. And how that itself seemed a step up towards greater access. Pretty sure namby pamby PPP was my first connection hehe