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1990

Network era

A Connected Market

The telebroking story opens into a wider picture of networks, data, and faster market communication.

PERIOD
1990
THEME
Connectivity
Broker and insurer network diagramA restrained schematic showing data moving between brokers, insurers, and CDL systems.
Network-era terminal screensScreens, printouts, or reconstructed interface details from the connected market period.

The early 1990s should feel like a widening of the frame. After the named character of Fozzy and telebroking, the book can show the insurance market beginning to expect faster, more connected ways of working.

The value of this spread is not nostalgia for hardware. It is the idea that CDL was learning how information should move: between businesses, between systems, and between the people making decisions.

  1. From system to network

    The story shifts from isolated software capability toward connected insurance workflows.

  2. Market communication

    Broker, insurer, and data movement become part of the product narrative.