当调制解调器只能以每秒300比特的速度传输数据,即使一张黑白图表也得耗上半小时才能下载的年代,可曾预想过,未来的世界可凭借因特网获得巨大的经济效益?至少,美国在线公司(America On Line,AOL)这家网络服务供应商的创办人斯蒂夫·凯恩早在15年前就萌生如此远见,或许今天听来毫不稀奇,但是,当凯恩于1985年创建美国在线公司时,当时 When the modem was able to transmit data at speeds of up to 300 bits per second, even an hourly black-and-white chart took half an hour to download, it was envisioned that the world in the future would have enormous economic benefits over the Internet - at least, Steve Kane, the founder of the network service provider America Online (AOL), may have come a long way since he started 15 years ago, and may sound surprising today, but when Kane was in 1985 At the time when creating AOL