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I think you’re forgetting how fast tech moved in the 1990s, it wasn’t until 1999 that broadband was available in the 8th largest city in the US.

(I remember wanting to dumpster dive the CO because we got a letter from Southwestern Bell saying they were upgrading the equipment to 5ESS in late fall 1998)

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Major US cities had bandwidth up the wazoo by the end of the 90's, it just hadn't been properly distributed yet. The poor/rich categorization is unjustified - in fact many poor folks in SoCal were able to leapfrog the Beverly Hills T1 hipsters merely due to the fact that they lived closer to the cheaper NOC's ..

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