I grew up in Regina, Canada. Regina is a rather conservative big Government town where things change even slower than the climate. Consequently, my experience m

I grew up in Regina, Canada. Regina is a rather conservative big Government town where things change even slower than the climate. Consequently, my experience may not be typical so do with this what you will. The shortest possible answer is yeah, people were very sceptical of the Internet in the early days. In the early 90s, I remember one very senior government official who my parents knew say "there is nothing of use on the internet." I would have been about fourteen then and had never even imagined such blasphemy, but here was a guy who had done well for himself shitting all over the only place I had ever wanted to work! I remember how dismissive my Dad was of email when his employer gave him his first email account. "Why the hell did they do this to me?" he'd fume. "Interoffice mail used to take a few days, but at least I could open the damned thing." Yet a decade later, he retired and bought himself a computer so he could keep using email! Ky biggest takeaway from those years is that only the most technical people had any vision of what the web could become. In that early state, the web kind of sucked. It was hard to even go online and once you were there it was even harder to find anything of value. Thanks to some true visionaries, the web has become indispensable. And I'm convinced that the same kinds of visionaries will do the same with blockchain.