CERN likes to say April 30, 1993[1]. The web was the first "killer platform" (built on top of the internet) that enabled virtually all killer apps to come - to

CERN likes to say April 30, 1993[1]. The web was the first "killer platform" (built on top of the internet) that enabled virtually all killer apps to come - to the point where the general population uses the word "internet" to refer to the web (depending on how you view mobile apps). The web is a platform that stands on top of the internet (which is at OSI model layers 1-4). Blockchain is a platform that stands on top of the internet too. Difference is that after 13 years no one has been able to create anything of utility with it other than trade tokens. There's no point in bringing up the history of the plumbing that is the internet from before either of these dates. Besides, as other commenters have noted, the realities of connectivity in the early nineties are so radically different from the release of Bitcoin in 2009 it's absurd to compare the two. Yet, even when you do, the web still grew at 10x the rate of blockchain in terms of user adoption. [1] https://home.cern/science/computing/birth-web https://home.cern/science/computing/birth-web