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It's a good comparison insofar as the tools were/are primitive and only usable by experts. A lot of domain knowledge was required. You can hate crypto and stil

by mthoms 5y ago

It's a good comparison insofar as the tools were/are primitive and only usable by experts. A lot of domain knowledge was required. You can hate crypto and still agree with me on the above point. It's a pretty innocuous observation. I'm not going to engage the rest of your argument which has no bearing on the point being made.

skinnymuch 5y ago
Yeah! My brother was an expert in 1990 at 6. Me at 6 in 93-94. Except we most certainly weren’t. You’re giving a completely wrong impression of how the early web was and the early internet. I wasn’t around for that so I won’t personally give my input but for the time, each iteration every few years was great. If domain knowledge wasn’t needed by the 90s. When was serious domain knowledge needed? When did that stop? Some people found the internet hard to use and found it required more domain knowledge than they had every single year since the internet snd web have been around. Including in the 2020s.
- knorker 5y ago
  I'm not sure what you're trying to say. Comparing cryptocurrencies to the Internet is about comparing its usefulness, not it's understandability. I won't argue that people in general understood the Internet. Take my example of Fidonet. If you were not a computer expert then you had never heard of Fidonet. BBSs? Maybe you'd heard of it in some news clip about the dangers of computers. Hell, the only time non-experts even saw anything close to a BBS was probably the movie Wargames. > You’re giving a completely wrong impression of how the early web was and the early internet. In what way? > I wasn’t around for that so I won’t personally give my input You don't know, but you know I'm wrong about it?
  - skinnymuch 5y ago
    You probably won’t see this any more so I won’t respond to rest unless you respond. For your last point. Were you around for the development of Arpanet? I don’t think there are many people who were adults in the 69s in the few places arpanet was developed at. — So not being around for something doesn’t exclude you from being able to discuss internet related things. - For understanding internet. I don’t think 99.9% of the population understands the difference between the internet and protocols like the web. Not sure that’s relevant any way tho.
knorker 5y ago
> It's a good comparison insofar as the tools were/are primitive and only usable by experts. A lot of domain knowledge was required. Is your argument "it's hard to use, and therefore it's useful"? If not, then I really don't understand what your point is.

by mthoms 5y ago

skinnymuch 5y ago

Yeah! My brother was an expert in 1990 at 6. Me at 6 in 93-94. Except we most certainly weren’t. You’re giving a completely wrong impression of how the early web was and the early internet. I wasn’t around for that so I won’t personally give my input but for the time, each iteration every few years was great. If domain knowledge wasn’t needed by the 90s. When was serious domain knowledge needed? When did that stop? Some people found the internet hard to use and found it required more domain knowledge than they had every single year since the internet snd web have been around. Including in the 2020s.

knorker 5y ago
I'm not sure what you're trying to say. Comparing cryptocurrencies to the Internet is about comparing its usefulness, not it's understandability. I won't argue that people in general understood the Internet. Take my example of Fidonet. If you were not a computer expert then you had never heard of Fidonet. BBSs? Maybe you'd heard of it in some news clip about the dangers of computers. Hell, the only time non-experts even saw anything close to a BBS was probably the movie Wargames. > You’re giving a completely wrong impression of how the early web was and the early internet. In what way? > I wasn’t around for that so I won’t personally give my input You don't know, but you know I'm wrong about it?
- skinnymuch 5y ago
  You probably won’t see this any more so I won’t respond to rest unless you respond. For your last point. Were you around for the development of Arpanet? I don’t think there are many people who were adults in the 69s in the few places arpanet was developed at. — So not being around for something doesn’t exclude you from being able to discuss internet related things. - For understanding internet. I don’t think 99.9% of the population understands the difference between the internet and protocols like the web. Not sure that’s relevant any way tho.

knorker 5y ago

> It's a good comparison insofar as the tools were/are primitive and only usable by experts. A lot of domain knowledge was required. Is your argument "it's hard to use, and therefore it's useful"? If not, then I really don't understand what your point is.