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Tech and AI: 1. How Do You Get Connected?

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How to Get the Internet to Your Home

In 1967, the BBC Science Show Tomorrow's World gave us our first sight of a man working from home in his pyjamas. Industrial consultant Rex Malek feels the business world's pulse from his bedside. The connection costs the equivalent of around £500 a week in today's money. But by the 1970s, realistic home networking seemed to be just around the corner. Well, almost. In the 1980s saw millions of people buying their first home computers. And yet the idea of connecting them up to other computers struggled to find much appeal beyond serious hobbyists and business users. This problem was only solved in the 2000s, with home broadband Internet,. Even more radical change was on

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