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    15 hours ago

    in 1990… only .05% (2.8 million) had internet?

    In 1990, the World Wide Web wasn’t even available outside of CERN/university usage yet. That didn’t become widely available to the public until 1993, and the first ISP would have only been established a year prior, in 1989.

    This, to me, is like saying originally that only Edison had light bulbs in January of 1880.

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      Internet is the interconnected networks and WWW is the open system of interconnected pages that that can be accessed through internet.

      Before WWW you had online portals and BBS.

      Its is more like saying that cars existed and were used before of the production of the Ford Model T.