In 1991, very few people had Internet access. Those who did post in online forums or email friends from home typically accessed the Internet via telephone line, their messages traveling at a top speed of 14.4 kilobits per second. Meanwhile, cable TV was rocketing in popularity. By 1991, sixty percent of U.S. households subscribed to a cable service; cable rollouts in the rest of the world were also picking up speed.
Hypothetically, using that growing cable network instead of phone lines for…
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