March 12 2019 was a significant birthday for the current world of communications, promotion, information exchange and research. It was on this date in 1989 that the World Wide Web was nominally launched and opened to the world.
Of course in the early years there was limited growth and it was not until the early part of the 1990s that it became available to the general public, although it was starting to be used by academia and some corporate organizations. Personally I recall the first instances were I was able to access 'the web' by using an account granted through McMaster University and working with a dial up modem over phone lines at speeds around 300 baud. It was a text based world at that time and you didn't get images or video due to the very low connections speeds.
I migrated to my first personal commercial account through Net Access in 1994 being one of their early customers. Still access was through pretty slow dial up connections but it could be instant and cover long distances at no additional cost.
Contrast this to the norm for communications in those days with phone, mail and fax being the most dominant forms available. Before fax became available telex was the key quick communication for governments and larger corporations. For the public it really was phone and mail which dominated communications.
Two generations now know only the WWW world
As we move from the last part of the second and into the third decade of the twenty first century there are now two full generations who have grown up knowing only the instant world of the World Wide Web and the millions of enhancements it has undergone over its thirty years of existence.
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