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Throughout the 1990s, internet usage rapidly accelerated across a variety of dimensions. Not only did the number of internet users grow quickly, but so did the amount of data that they each sent and received due to a slew of new use cases and services which were accessible online. This pushed internet infrastructure to evolve across each of those same dimensions; coverage expanded, speeds increased across each part of the internet’s constituent networks, and regionalisation accelerated.

As described in the previous chapter, the key theme that we can see developing between each of these stages in the architectural evolution of the internet is increasing regionalisation. Both network and server or data centre infrastructure have at this stage begun to push out closer to the locations of their end users, through a combination of expanding existing areas of internet service availability and the addition of new areas over time to capture the growing demand for new key online services.