Communications · Recorded milestone

Home broadband

Recorded year1995

Rogers' Wave in Ontario starts North America's first cable internet in 1995; cable and DSL soon give homes always-on internet far faster than dial-up.

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Built on

Low-loss optical fibreRecorded · 1970enables
World Wide WebRecorded · 1991enables

Led to

Internet callingRecorded · 2003enables
Online video sharingRecorded · 2005enables
Video streamingRecorded · 2007enables

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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.