A decade of Net change

[mandy]

This year marks the 10th anniversary of what most people consider the commercial development of the Internet, which has enabled entrepreneurs such as Hedin to flourish online.

The Internet has spawned thousands of Internet businesses, allowing them to harness the power of technology to push the outer boundaries in every industry.

In 1993, only about 90,000 people in the United States accessed the Internet. It was difficult to navigate, and only scientists, librarians, educators, the military and computer geeks used it...

... "If you think back before the dot-com bust, people were saying the Internet was all about eyeballs and stickiness and some very ill-defined business models that didn't have any clear way to make money,"

full article: http://www.mysanantonio.com/business/sto...67111.html

[jezebel]

This year marks the 10th anniversary of what most people consider the commercial development of the Internet,

Remember the flame wars directed at the first people who set up commercial things?  We all hated them for wrecking the Internet