Things have changed quite a bit in the last 25 years! 🖱
It's so ingrained into our daily lives today that it's amazing to think the internet was used by less than a tenth of the UK population as recently as 1997.
Going back to the beginning, it was only 30 years ago, in March 1992, that the UK’s first commercial Internet Service Provider launched. At that time, the internet was still seen as largely a novelty for techies, and few people understood it or thought they needed it.Broadband came to the UK in 2000 which saw usage skyrocket over the next few years, but many households still used dial-up connections well beyond that.
Richard Tang, founder and chairman of Zen Internet, said: “The effects the Internet has had on our society are incalculable. We have a world of knowledge, entertainment and convenience at our fingertips, and that’s not to mention the many businesses and innovation the Internet has helped foster. That modem noise A far cry from today’s video streaming, online gaming and Zoom calls, early internet access was provided by dial-up modems that made alien-like sounds as they established a connection. At a time when the online world was largely silent – mostly because anything bigger than text and small images took far too long to download - it is the distinctive chirps and whistles of your modem completing a connection that many of us may remember and probably do not miss.
By the 1980s and 90s, it became popular across business, government, and academic environments, before achieving mainstream status by the 2000s. An email account became something included with your home internet access, helping kick start the period of, depending on your generation, those embarrassing first attempts at usernames and email addresses that seemed fun or cool at the time.Many computers didn’t even come with the software needed to get online.
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