waaay back in ancient history, we breathed a sigh of relief at the State Department of Transportation when we received the messaging that we didn't need to cater to every edge case when designing an internet facing customer (who, at the time, might have had a 9600 baud modem)

Many parts of the world got Cell coverage before they got land lines because they were cheaper to deploy.

“The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed.

The Economist, December 4, 2003” ― William Gibson