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> it was already popular amongst the general public. No it wasn’t, not by the normal definition of “popular”. It was less than 1% of the population. https://w
by kortilla 4y ago
> it was already popular amongst the general public.
No it wasn’t, not by the normal definition of “popular”. It was less than 1% of the population.
https://www.internetworldstats.com/emarketing.htm https://www.internetworldstats.com/emarketing.htm
- poulpy123 4y agoin 1994-1995 in france, internet was starting to be known from the general public and available to anyone. It was already dubbed as the future in the medias
- bsaul 4y agopeople talked about it, people knew about it, some non-tech people already were using it. That's what i meant by "popular" (sorry, non-native, so maybe it isn't the correct word). What i mean is that it wasn't some bleeding edge tech only a few people in the elite knew about. Everybody already knew that was the future.
- pfsalter 4y agoCould be talking about Mintel [0] which was a simpler, earlier version of the web [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel