Member-only story
With the introduction of computers and the first browser Mosaic in 1993, IBM thought you only needed 5 computers in America.
They should be controlled by the government and used for different branches of the white house.
This new technological advancement started with 4000 bits of memory and could only do very simple things. The game Dragons Lair from 1990 was considered a breakthrough because it actually had animations that were quite decent.
The executives at IBM laughed at the idea that everyone should suddenly have access to such sophisticated machines.
30 years later almost everybody has a small supercomputer in his pocket.
Emerging technologies were always under attack by skeptics, questioning the use cases or companies behind them.
However, humans are much too creative, versatile and smart not to continuously develop technology and make it even more efficient in all areas.
The History Of The Internet Is Quite Young
Web 1 (circa 1990–2005) was about open protocols that were decentralized and community-managed. Users and developers created most of the value at the edges of the web.
