Today it is exactly twenty-eight years since the Czech Republic was connected to the Internet. Today, we cannot imagine life without the Internet. We need it for work, study, entertainment, or perhaps to run the household. When the Czech Republic, as the 39th country in the world, joined the global network on February 13, 1992, the Internet was initially the prerogative of academics, scientists and experts. It began to spread to households and the commercial sphere only later.
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The Internet in the Czech Republic was definitely not cheap in its early days. While today the average price for a normal connection is in the hundreds of crowns, in 1995 the monthly fee for an Internet connection was around a thousand, while the average monthly wage was around 8500 crowns. Many people therefore chose Internet cafes as a solution – here you could pay for Internet access for a certain period of time and do everything you needed – answer emails, read messages, look up information for your studies or just chatwith friends, and have a good coffee or dessert. Along with the decline in internet prices, cafes gradually disappeared, but some of their operators eventually became internet connection providers. Internet business also flourished - one of the most famous examples of a company that started in the 1990s and has survived to this day is Ivo Lukačevič's Seznam.
While, according to a Monitor.cz study, only 1998 active users (less than five percent of the population) were connected to the Internet in 480, today, according to data from the Czech Statistical Office, it is more than 81%. Do you want to remember what the first Czech websites looked like? Take a look at our gallery. The Czech Republic ceremoniously joined the Internet on February 13, 1992 in auditorium No. 257 at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague's Dejvice, at that time the connection speed was around an incredible 19,2 kb/s.
No reason to celebrate! As is the custom of the Czech nation, many people abuse the i-net at the expense of others, and especially the fact that it is charged is the biggest shame.
E.g. offered i-net for KC 350 is blackmail, because the quality is not indicated by the provider, but by the server. And depending on the recipient's tribute, it's often a horror story.
If I'm not mistaken, in Finland, for example, there is even the right to use the i-net without charge, as it is considered the most accessible source of information, etc.
In addition, those Saxon operators are a bunch of demented people, including the pseudo-ideal 5G network.
And I'm not talking about a total absence in private!
There's only one question left to ask, why don't you move to Finland? I think it would be better for everyone. Or why don't you personally provide free internet, Elon Musk It's already getting ready to do it, Google does it in a lot of places, why not you?
I would send him to the USA ... the connections there are perhaps the slowest I have ever seen ... and several times more expensive ... he would still like to return to the Czech Republic :)
You need to find another provider...
@Radim
350 CZK ... is approx. 1-2% of the average income of one adult, and the whole family can then use the Internet
"absence of privacy" - as you might expect, the state did not protect your privacy in any way during the Comanche era - on the contrary, while the laws are currently there and with the use of a VPN you can have privacy even on the Internet, so please don't cry here.
I am a witness. Websites came much later than internet access. In the beginning, Telnet and especially Gopher were enough for us. That was the way to foreign servers back then. Mainly libraries and universities. But it was beautiful when no one around had it and had no idea what it was about.
Yes, those were wonderful times.
In 1994, everyone went to telnet BBS and gopher, Netscape Navigator was just being created.
And above all, you only met people with brains on the Internet, mostly students and scientific workers.
Sometime in 96, the Strahov dormitories were closed.
Later, when the general population joined the voter Milos Z., it turned into flowers. How beautiful it was without the blunt.