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Originally Posted by Omah
Making the internet "accessible to ALL" also involved the increasing availability and sophistication of PCs allied with price reductions along with increasing telephone line speeds* plus a paradigm shift in working practices .....
..... and Microsoft bundling IE with every Windows PC helped ..... 
* I can recall paying 1p a minute for a line speed of 56k - downloading a "single" MP3 took 40 minutes, longer if the connection broke and the download had to be restarted (from the beginning) .....  |
Lol - I can remember those pre-broadband days, with my kids monopolising the phone line on dial up to download albums that sometimes took all night!