“The Internet has become the ultimate narrowcasting vehicle: everyone from UFO buffs to New York Yankee fans has a Website (or dozen) to call his own—a dot-com in every pot. Technology will only quicken the pace at which news is moving away from the universal and toward the individualized,”
-Richard Zoglin, in the October 21, 1996 issue of TIME
- 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.