and aroun the world (Score 1)

more interesting than see the usage of internet in USA is to take a look around the world at that time. in 1996 the distance between USA and the rest of the world in internet services, conexios and/or spread was huge, today that diference simply doesn't exist. I was 10 but i remember that internet here in Brazil was not atractive, my cousin, that brought internet to my house was trying to sell the idea: - See! now we are connected with the rest of the world! look we can visit (i don't remember the site exactly, but it was american)..! - But it is in english, we can't read it... - well, there ain't many sites in portuguese, but we can speak with some buddy! the problem is, you already had some fellows to chat with, but in Brazil, most of the people don't even had PCs at that time. i think that this is why places like Brazil are more disposed to adopt new things in the web than USA. For example, google in USA today is stronger than yahoo but in Brazil and other countries this difference is even bigger, i saw the statistics once but cant remember the numbers. that's because when internet popularized in Brazil google already was one of the first, we didn't participate of the yahoo era, it already arrived here as a pepsi.