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> No one thought the internet was a fad. Wrong. [0] 1995 Wired Magazine "Most things that succeed don’t require retraining 250 million people." [1] 1995 News
by MacsHeadroom 4y ago
> No one thought the internet was a fad.
Wrong.
[0] 1995 Wired Magazine "Most things that succeed don’t require retraining 250 million people."
[1] 1995 NewsWeek "The Internet is a fad" https://www.peterlundell.com/the-internet-is-a-fad/ https://www.peterlundell.com/the-internet-is-a-fad/
[2] 2000 Daily Mail "Internet may be just a passing fad as millions give up on it." https://regia-marinho.medium.com/internet-may-be-just-a-passing-fad-the-newspaper-said-21-years-ago-153aae2e0c2f https://regia-marinho.medium.com/internet-may-be-just-a-pass...
etc. etc.
Anyone who was a nerd in the 80s and early 90s knows that we spent the better part of two decades being told that the internet was no more revolutionary than fax machines and that most people would never use it.
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- Eisenstein 4y agoSome op-ed pieces and getting mocked by people for being a nerd do not demonstrate to me a fundamental disagreement about the usefulness of the internet amongst people who understood what it was. Ignorance is annoying, but it is easily remedied by exposure and knowledge. Contrast this with a cryptocurrency technologies, which are completely understood at this point and still lack legit real-world use at scale beyond speculation and yet it is constantly claimed that 'it just takes time for brilliant technology to find a use case'. As far as I can recall, this has never been the case in the modern world -- every paradigm changing technology has had an immediate and obvious application where it greatly surpassed anything before it, regardless of if it took years or decades to build infrastructure and educate people on how to use it.