37% rural youth sans Internet access: Study
In late ‘90s and ‘00s most ‘dot-coms’ lacked a revenue model (past an IPO). But they were making a lot of money for cable/phone companies. People around the world were signing up for internet connections to consume all that ‘free’ online content. And as long as they made the lion’s share of internet industry profits, internet service providers (ISPs) were happy to support idealistic notions like net-neutrality; the idea that all data on the internet is treated equally. For a while, ISPs actually went along with the radical notion that consumers not ISPs should determine what consumers should see.
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