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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: combjelly who wrote (334959)4/23/2007 6:20:42 PM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (1) of 1573829
 
CJ, > Before his initiative, it was difficult to access the Internet unless you worked for the military, worked for a university and were allowed access because you were supporting their unix systems or for a company for the same reason.

The average home computer at the time was a Commodore 64 or Apple II. If you had the money, you could afford a 2400 baud direct connect modem that downloaded BBS pages faster than you could read them.

Maybe that hindered the widespread adoption of the Internet much more than some unseen barrier that only Al Gore could demolish?

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