I find it misleading how so many of these articles talk about dial-up Internet at home, as if it was typically a person's first exposure to the Internet. For most people in the 90s, their first exposure to the Internet was on a public or company computer. The heat from a couple dozen CRT displays packed into a slightly too small room, was an integral part of the experience. As was "Downloading... (134 B/s)" while a couple dozen instances of Netscape all tried to cram their request packets over the 128 kbit/s ISDN line that served the whole campus.