The internet in India turns 30— and we’re going back to where it all began. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TO8pnOiP6Fg EDGE, a new podcast by the Museum of Digital Society × Digital Empowerment Foundation, kicks off with Episode 1 (1995–2000).
In this episode, Osama Manzar takes us back to the days of dial-up sounds, floppy disks, early newsrooms going online, and a time when the internet felt like pure magic. From curiosity and trust to the first moments of borderless connection, this is the story of how India met the web.
Comment: Around 30 years before that we had the SITE, the Instructional TV experiment at PIJ, which alongwith the B & W TV stations at Mumbai and Delhi promised programming which were developmental, Amchi Mati Amchi Mansa, Adult Education on TV, etc. Even today we have several opportunities for young people to make use of the digital for empowerment, yet they prder to go with the Corporate led algorythms