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Good article, brought back memories! A small correction:

> 56 kilobits per second just before the technology was effectively wiped out by wide-area Internet around the end of the 1990s, which brought in speeds of a megabit per second and more (200 times faster)

That should read 20 times faster?




> and more...

probably refers to the first widely installed (with coaxial cables) 10 MBit Ethernet networks...




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