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by Retric
3887 days ago
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Many places with declining GDP still have great internet because it's just not that expensive. Also, bandwidth's utility is generally a log function. Don't forget the telegraph was valuable enough to run under sea and cross country cables starting in 1850 and that's ~10bits per second with several cables being run in the next few years. By 1901 we had a global network: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine_communications_cable... (all this for ~10–12 words per minute.) |
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