Even in 1985, We Knew Facebook Was Possible

The fact that 1 billion people around the world are now on Facebook, and using it so habitually, is... incredible. For those of us who were using picks and shovels to build the Internet three decades ago, it's validation of what we believed would someday happen.

Take a walk with me down memory lane, and I'll explain why.

When we started AOL in 1985, only 3% of households in the U.S. were online -- and they only were online for about one hour per week. This was in part because the services weren't yet that interesting, but it was also because they were expensive.

People typically spent $6 or more per hour to be connected. If that were still the case today, Facebook users wo…
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