Look How Far We've Come

Back in the 80's - for those of you who weren't around - computers had to connect to Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) or directly to each other by phone. I'm not talking about dial-up internet, they actually had to place a phone call (often times long-distance) to the other system.

It wasn't until the late 80s that ISPs came onto the scene and not until the late 90s that it grew in popularity where more and more people wanted to connect to it. Then in this decade where internet speeds at home allowed for the internet explosion we are experiencing today.

The down side of this is that media sources -- Newspaper, Radio, and TV -- are expected to make their product available online for free and we haven't yet been able to convince our advertisers of the value of our online content to help offset the cost of hosting all this content. we can all blame that on the Dot-Com Bubble of 1999-2000.

Still, the internet is still in it's infancy, or awkward teens, and there is plenty of room to mature in the coming decade. Let's just see what happens next.