WI: Internet and computer growth in the 90s delayed 5-10 years

During the late 1990s the Internet grew from just a few at universities to people around the world. The computers went from PC 286s in the begining of the decade with 2-4 RAM to Pentiums with many times that in RAM.

WI that was somehow slowed and the Internet not beeing in every mans home in 2001 and the computers slower. How would this affect the following:

1.Race for president in 2000
2. September 11 2001
3. Lewinsky affair(first time Internet was exposed to sex in a big way since Starrs report was more or less a dirty novell:))
4. Iphones/Smartphones
 
Late '90s?

WWW was well established by 1994 with the Mosaic browser, that supplanted Archie, Gopher and the rest of those early search and connect tools.

Ur-Internet was alive and well in the early '80s with 1st gen Personal Computers like the Atari and Apple, with the various dialup services like Compuserve, FidoNet and local BBS. It's doable on 300 baud

I had email back then, but nobody I really wanted to message directly, for years.
But interest groups in Compuserve then Usenet, that was another thing.
 
If it was delayed, then it would have been easier for rural internet service to catch up to urban ones, since the urban ones were developing so slowly.

Anyway, one way to slow down this process is to prevent Al Gore from convincing the US government to increase funding of the internet.
 
If it was delayed, then it would have been easier for rural internet service to catch up to urban ones, since the urban ones were developing so slowly.

Anyway, one way to slow down this process is to prevent Al Gore from convincing the US government to increase funding of the internet.

Rural connection of copper data infrastructure had, and always will, lag urban areas.

ARPANET was already a thing when Al was playing Army Photog in South Vietnam.

His High-Performance Computing and Communications Act didn't make the Internet, either.
State of the Internet, three years before Al tried to move that Bill
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...nd-social-experiment-of-the-internet-in-1988/
 
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