The untold history of when the internet really started making money. Season two pivots to the dawn of internet entrepreneurship and its broader, irrevocable impact on our culture in the 1990s.

This essay is part of Time, Online, a Future Tense series on how technology is changing prison. It’s published in partnership with Open Campus, a nonprofit newsroom focused on higher education.

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. It’s a computer, a monitor, an internet communicator, and one of the most iconic lines of tech in history. But ...