In 2002, we were using terrible dial-up connections, but we still managed to get online, and we weren't the only ones. So...
Maybe things weren't so great in 2005, but it wasn't a complete disaster either; the connection wasn't that bad anymore.
Oh well... I'm just saying what I see.
The internet is becoming popular, and it's being shaped by those who benefit from it. They say that when they invent the "flying car," the city will be divided into two parts: the upper and the lower. I think that something similar will happen soon, dividing things into "real" and "virtual." It exists now, but it's not total.
Just as a guy today would be embarrassed to tell a girl that he doesn't have a mobile phone, in the future, no such guy will risk mentioning that he doesn't have a page on VKontakte or, God forbid, doesn't have his own field in Happy Farm.
Popularization – soon we will be swimming in the internet just as we do outside of it.
Except the ones we've made