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Great Internet Explosion
The mainstreaming of the Internet in 1993-1994. Used normally in time comparatives; before the 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 it, everybody's mother had access.