This sentiment seems a little bit unusual to me, since we recognize the Internet as the great invention only post-hoc. Throughout the years many people invested

This sentiment seems a little bit unusual to me, since we recognize the Internet as the great invention only post-hoc. Throughout the years many people invested inordinate amounts of effort in making various things happen - just to have not that much impact at all in the end. Case in point: how many OS projects are deprecated just on github. There probably are big inventions waiting to be discovered out there that could benefit from your skills - finding them or getting started on them might be difficult though.