Thirty years ago, the internet came on the stage, and it took less than a decade to scale it to mass adoption as a general-purpose technology. People quickly embraced it as another instrument shortening the distance between them and allowing them to communicate in real time.
Now, for the first time in history, a person located in the US can send an email to someone in Japan, and the message will be received instantly without the need to use the services of a courier or post stamps. It is as simple as clicking a button and the message arrives in the recipient's inbox.
Then of course, a lot of other amazing use cases have followed the birth of the internet.
People started creating informational websites, watching videos online, going on the internet for location services, communication with friends and colleagues, exchanging files, ordering...
