Is there any reason the internet took off in America? I'm guessing because it was initially over telephone lines which is the last piece of infrastructure the US invested in decades before and it helps compensate for the massive distances information otherwise has to travel across North America. People in the US don't seem particularly friendly to new technology and computer literacy over other countries. Its usefulness isn't readily apparent and even the advertisements for it were usually pretty vague about what one could do on it. I'm guessing ISPs were able to make money without necessarily costing any other companies much money in the early days, so it wasn't a threat to TV companies for instance. The users seemed to initially just be college kids and tech professors on forums, etc. I don't see how that spills over into the general population.
So someone linked a podcast talking about why internet took of in the US vs Russia during the USSR. Apparently a lot of the infrastructure in the US was funded by the military and the companies kinda worked together on it. They stated it didn't take off in the USSR because of political groups running into each other. I don't remember the specifics to well to be honest.
Is there any reason the internet took off in America? I'm guessing because it was initially over telephone lines which is the last piece of infrastructure the US invested in decades before and it helps compensate for the massive distances information otherwise has to travel across North America. People in the US don't seem particularly friendly to new technology and computer literacy over other countries. Its usefulness isn't readily apparent and even the advertisements for it were usually pretty vague about what one could do on it. I'm guessing ISPs were able to make money without necessarily costing any other companies much money in the early days, so it wasn't a threat to TV companies for instance. The users seemed to initially just be college kids and tech professors on forums, etc. I don't see how that spills over into the general population.
So someone linked a podcast talking about why internet took of in the US vs Russia during the USSR. Apparently a lot of the infrastructure in the US was funded by the military and the companies kinda worked together on it. They stated it didn't take off in the USSR because of political groups running into each other. I don't remember the specifics to well to be honest.
Do you know how many mass technologies were decided by the porn industry’s adoption?
None of them because that's an urban legend that porn defenders spout.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET It came out of military communications research.