The headline for this 1988 CompuServe advertisement for Internet Access made me go - huh.
Old stats:
Price: $6.00 to $47.50 per hour ($11 to $83 adjusted for inflation)
Connection: dial-up
Speed: 300 to 9600 bps (Avg. speed now is 6,000,000 bps)
Services: 400 databases, covering news, shopping, finance and the like; 140 discussion groups, e-mail
Old stats:
Price: $6.00 to $47.50 per hour ($11 to $83 adjusted for inflation)
Connection: dial-up
Speed: 300 to 9600 bps (Avg. speed now is 6,000,000 bps)
Services: 400 databases, covering news, shopping, finance and the like; 140 discussion groups, e-mail
1 comment:
Awesome example of how the whole concept of design and marketing have changed, corresponding to the speed of our lives. Can you imagine to read all that copy, no information hierarchy, competing text and image, all questions than you end up rather not to bother.
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