"NPR's coverage of the post-web era describes a "great online awakening" driven by an explosion in the number of internet-connected people. "The result is more chaos than you can imagine and literally thousands and thousands of websites," Rich Dean reported for NPR in 1996. By the end of 1995, more than 24 million people in the U.S. and Canada alone spent an average of 5 hours per week on the internet."
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Rich Dean NPR, (1996) as quoted by Julian Ring “30 years ago, one decision altered the course of our connected world”, NPR, (April 30, 2023)
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