I'm not sure the others aspired to, to quite the same extent. Partly a function of timing of course. Stable, universal broadband connections arrived a couple o

I'm not sure the others aspired to, to quite the same extent. Partly a function of timing of course. Stable, universal broadband connections arrived a couple of years before Facebook, and the iPhone a couple of years after. Even as late as 2002, people _went_ online. I think the last time I used a modem must have been summer 2003 or so. By 2007, people _were_ online.