“The Internet as we know it now will be quaint… The Citizen’s Band radio phase died out, and the Internet is kind of in that CB radio state. It will evolve and mature in a couple of ways. It’ll be a global electronic city, with slum areas and red light districts, but it’ll also have a central business district.”
-Timothy Logue, speaking with Satellite Communications, September 1996
- Paul Krugman, Leftist genius and Nobel Prize-winning "economist," 1998.
Solely to annoy children like you.
A dial up connection meant downloading a low definition 2 minute video was an exercise in endurance.
The Internet was however much the same as now except there was more competition in search engines, browsers and video sites. Mostly though, it was just slower. Much slower.