So, the bar you've established is arguably the single greatest invention of the past 50 years? Sheesh, there really is no pleasing some people. >For the Inter

So, the bar you've established is arguably the single greatest invention of the past 50 years? Sheesh, there really is no pleasing some people. >For the Internet I could have sent you thousands of examples of such things a few months after the first public ISP appeared. DARPAnet and the other predecessors of the Internet were immediately useful in countless ways... As stated in the previous thread, I strongly disagree. Nerds like us found it useful, nearly everyone else found it clunky and boring [0]. Here's further context, with the benefit of hindsight: > ... in many ways, Cliff Stoll wasn't wrong. The Internet really did suck then, and it really was a huckster's paradise. But the fatal flaw in his argument was his assumption that it was never going to get any better. [1] Sound familiar? I'm not equating Bitcoin with the early Internet. That's apples to oranges. I'm only disputing your emphatic (based on the previous thread) claim that the early Internet was useful or interesting to anything beyond a relatively small group of people. That was true up until the late 90's (internet "age" at that time ~ 16-17 years). I lived through that era.... the way you're describing it sounds a lot like revisionist history to me. [0] https://www.newsweek.com/clifford-stoll-why-web-wont-be-nirvana-185306 https://www.newsweek.com/clifford-stoll-why-web-wont-be-nirv... [1] https://www.newsweek.com/lets-talk-about-1995-newsweek-piece-says-internet-will-fail-210278 https://www.newsweek.com/lets-talk-about-1995-newsweek-piece...