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Re:Alienated, Alone and Angry: What the Digital Revolution Did? by nradov on Friday December 20, 2019 @10:23AM (#21844783)
Internet adoption was fastest in the US because we had the disposable income to afford it, and because future leaders attending elite colleges were given free access to it.
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Re:Alienated, Alone and Angry: What the Digital Revolution Did? by harryf on Friday December 20, 2019 @10:28AM (#21844827)
The same conditions existed in Europe hence Tim Berners Lee / Cern / WWW. But the adoption wasn't at the same speed
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Re:Alienated, Alone and Angry: What the Digital Revolution Did? by hrydgard on Friday December 20, 2019 @11:04AM (#21845095)
Adoption in the Nordics certainly was very comparable.
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Re:Alienated, Alone and Angry: What the Digital Revolution Did? by PeterStuer on Friday December 20, 2019 @12:36PM (#21845830)
It wasn't actually. There were always countries that were faster in Internet adoption. https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2018/09/Share-of-internet...
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Re:Alienated, Alone and Angry: What the Digital Revolution Did? by refurb on Friday December 20, 2019 @01:13PM (#21846147)
Marginally. North America was definitely among the leading countries.
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Re:Alienated, Alone and Angry: What the Digital Revolution Did? by cambalache on Friday December 20, 2019 @04:42PM (#21847613)
North America is not a country.
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Re:Alienated, Alone and Angry: What the Digital Revolution Did? by refurb on Friday December 20, 2019 @07:27PM (#21848647)
Yeah, but’s what it’s the source so...?!?
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