[extropy-chat] Who Anticipated Internet Exploding in 90s?

[Giu1i0 Pri5c0]

I did. In 1990 I was playing with the idea to start a net access business
for individual end users, and even found someone who was maybe willing to
invest some money. Then I let them talking me out of the idea, "this is too
crazy, there will never be a market for this". Now when I wish to do some
sweet daydreaming I think of what I would do with all the money that I would
have now if I had followed my idea to the end.
Two lessons here: 1 - believe in your ideas - 2 - get your ass off the
armchair and do it.

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Robin Hanson wrote,
> I just read someone who said:
>
> "no one anticipated the explosive diffusion of the Internet
> during the 1990s"
>
> and I figured that this can't be right - surely someone must
> have had the dumb luck to predict such a thing before 1990.
> Can anyone point to a quote?

I suggest reading through "A Brief History of the Internet" at
<http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/brief.shtml>.  It has references to
all the milestones in Internet creation, including white papers,
conferences, etc.