“The cost was 28 dollars a month, which, out of the $800-900 welfare cheque she was getting, was a lot of money.”
A bored kid in a family on welfare got dial-up in 1998, learned English in chat rooms and grew into a programmer. That is the internet’s real success story. It came from open access to information, not from a feed built to keep kids scrolling. The kid in the same spot today gets the feed.