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Point remains that pricing of internet access was a huge driver of adoption, even in schools. Back in 1995, my local libraries did not have internet access ava
by MrFoof 3y ago
Point remains that pricing of internet access was a huge driver of adoption, even in schools.
Back in 1995, my local libraries did not have internet access available. This was a city of 100K a fair ways (about an hour) outside of Boston.
School? Super rare. Maybe ONCE OR TWICE A YEAR we would have a class scheduled in the Media Lab where we would learn about what the internet was, and then be able to barely poke at it in a highly supervised manner. This was despite the school having a few ISDN lines at the time, but that was mostly for backoffice administration, with only the one media lab having access outside of it, with a whopping TWO computers for a student body of 4500.
So even in a school with internet access, you might only get to get a vague idea of what the internet was ONCE A YEAR.
1998? Every high-level classroom in my high school of 4500 kids had two or three computers in the back with internet access. School added 8 computer labs (with 40 desktops each) that could be scheduled as frequently as weekly by a given teacher. If I recall correctly the school had upgraded to two DS3s from different providers.