How the Mac was born... supposedly...

[chris]

>but which ones were
>the most viable, and which ones contributed most to the explosive growth
>of the internet?

That would be the flood of AOL floppies, and the run of $300 PCs after 
rebate because you signed up for AOL for 3 years at $20/mn.

Everyone who was "hip" was getting online. AOL made it hip, and everyone 
who thought they could suck a dime out of the public joined in. The 
internet was just convenient because college students were talking about 
it, and it was free content that these fly by night ISPs could offer, 
while charging the same rate AOL/CompuServe/Prodigy et all were charging 
for their "custom" content.

At least that is the way I saw it go in the mid 90's.

-chris
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