The Internet was no longer early after it was front page news in mainstream magazines and more importantly, certainly not after Microsoft acquired FrontPage fro

The Internet was no longer early after it was front page news in mainstream magazines and more importantly, certainly not after Microsoft acquired FrontPage from Vermeer due to enough of a market for web publishing. When I joined a couple other guys working to build the southeast US's fastest growing ISP in early mid-90s, enough mom and pops, small businesses, and government agencies -- from backyard bird feeder webcams to US Navy recruiting -- were already staking their brochureware claims that it was worth marketing ourselves as offering FrontPage hosting. Windows 95 already took you online fine, while Windows 98SE bundled IE 5 which included the first version of XMLHttpRequest, giving birth to Ajax, enabling single page apps... and of course e-commerce in ad banners. By the time you are calling the early Internet, everyone called it Web 2.0, and most things are still that. Interestingly, I met tons of teens from rural UK in early 90s online, in MUDs and MOOs and especially Talkers such as Surfers: https://muds.fandom.com/wiki/Surfers https://muds.fandom.com/wiki/Surfers (Small world, several went on to found or lead top web 2.0 digital agencies.). As a sibling comment notes, most were at uni. By that time, the early 90s, it was then considered the end of the early Internet, beginning of mainstreaming. US law changed to allow making money online, Web 1.0 got its footing, and most of all, it was the start of Eternal September: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September