20 years ago, there were only 130 websites, Google wasn't around, and you had to pay for an email account through an ISP.
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In 2013, AOL declared that they still made over $500 million a year through dial-up internet subscriptions.
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In October 1997, when Internet Explorer 4.0 was released, some Microsoft employees left a giant "From the IE team... We Love You" on Netscape's lawn.
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After coming across a "very sweet" homeless man from Jamaica named Michael on a night out, Londoner Jenny Baker took to Twitter, and within hours, using the hashtag #getmichaelhome, had raised thousands of pounds so that he could return home to Jamaica where he said he would be "happy again".
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The United Nations declared the Internet a basic human right in 2011.
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