>> You people drunk on LLM kool aid forget that some of us are old enough to remember those years. I do.

>> It didn't require hundreds of billions of capex. It required someone to set up shop with a PC, a serial card and a couple modems.

This is a bad faith comparison. Those small business owners who gained access to the internet benefited from decades of research by military and research institutions, as well as massive amounts of infrastructure spending by telcos. That spending really started to pick up near the end of 1995. Between 1996 and 2001, North America collectively spent $1 trillion on the Internet buildout.