> It was also a time before ... mass consumer internet
I remember reading about its launch on mass consumer internet. (Why do I feel like people place the date for the start of mass consumer internet too late?) Here is a contemporaneous article from Time Magazine's website, which is a pretty mainstream, mass consumer publication: http://content.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,186660,...
In 2001 people still had dialup with AOL CDs. ISDN was the expensive corporate line. DSL was the fancy new broadband. Palm Pilot's and other mobile organizers were still common. Constant internet everywhere you go didn't exist.
Some people I knew had cable modems in 2001, and a few years before that. Though I read an article much like the one I linked on a 56k modem. (not AOL)
I think my first wifi gear was ~1 year after that. Orinoco chipset. That was a bit ahead of most people at that time though.
But yes, this part wasn't there:
> Constant internet everywhere you go didn't exist.
I remember reading about its launch on mass consumer internet. (Why do I feel like people place the date for the start of mass consumer internet too late?) Here is a contemporaneous article from Time Magazine's website, which is a pretty mainstream, mass consumer publication: http://content.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,186660,...