Writing and Reading

      In 1998, the World Wide Web was in its infancy. Most personal computers didn’t have the ability to display more than 256 colors, processors were tiny and slow by today’s standards, and dial-up modems were the way most people connected to the internet. People who had email addresses generally got them through their employers, mostly government agencies or universities. 7 Now, of course, the internet is ubiquitous, and available to people in all levels of society. Cultural repositories always try to keep up with new technology and make their collections accessible to all, but there isn’t always agreement on the best way to do so.

At this point, the writer is considering adding the following sentence.