That seems a very US-centric way of seeing the internet evolution. The rest of the world moved to higher speeds and didn't count Gabs (except on mobile) decade

That seems a very US-centric way of seeing the internet evolution. The rest of the world moved to higher speeds and didn't count Gabs (except on mobile) decades ago and I mean decades. In 2004 in Italy I had a 20 Mbit/s fiber connection, I had 100 Mbit few years later. I still remember pinging 4, literally 4 ms, on Counter Strike 1.6. And Fiber was started way later in 2010. So I don't see any impact by Google fiber on internet as a whole, maybe it pushed US carriers to not do worse (internet in US is not really that amazing in terms of speeds and latency). One thing that I noticed is that while speeds increased in the decades since then, latency became worse. Even with the fastest connection I can use I rarely if ever ping below 30 Ms on the very same Counter strike 1.6 or newer versions.