Marc Andreessen

Cable Internet access to homes will arrive within three to four years of August 1995 (by August 1999).

“I think one of the exciting things that going to happen over the next three or four years is cable Internet access.”

Said on

1 August 1995 · Interview with Barry Phillips, August 1995, logged in the Elon/Pew Predictions Database

Source

Interview: Marc Andreessen (Imagining the Internet predictions database) · Elon University

Should come true

Aug 1999

How sure they sounded

I think

Categories

Technology

Importance

3 of 5 · Cable broadband transformed home Internet access in the US and other countries.

Outcome

Accurate Happened 31 December 1996.

Commercial cable modem service launched in 1996 (@Home Network, followed by Road Runner), and by 1999 cable Internet had well over a million US subscribers, within the 3-4 year window.

Evidence:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/@Home_Network
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_Internet_access