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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Great Internet Explosion</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../G.html" title="G"/><link rel="previous" href="gray-hat.html" title="gray hat"/><link rel="next" href="Great-Renaming.html" title="Great Renaming"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Great Internet Explosion</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="gray-hat.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">G</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Great-Renaming.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Great-Internet-Explosion"/><dt xmlns="" id="Great-Internet-Explosion"><b>Great Internet Explosion</b></dt></dt><dd><p> The mainstreaming of the Internet in 1993-1994. Used normally in
time comparatives; before the Great Internet Explosion and after it were
very different worlds from a hacker's point of view. Before it, Internet
access was expensive and available only to an elite few through
universities, research laboratories, and well-heeled corporations; after
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