Totally agreed, except the Internet was also a business tool. In 1989, our company wanted to use the Internet to connect our 3 mini computers located in London, Tokyo, Los Angeles. Leased lines would have cost millions of dollars a year. The Internet would have cost thousands of dollars a year. Commercial traffic wasn’t allowed on the Internet. Connecting the computers together would have allowed a “follow the sun” information system that could have operated 24 X 7 instead of the batch processing and unsynchronised information system we had built. This would have been a game changer for our company.