The world-wide-web back in the 90s was a very weird place and tons of people thought it would amount to nothing more than a fad, including a Nobel Prize winning

The world-wide-web back in the 90s was a very weird place and tons of people thought it would amount to nothing more than a fad, including a Nobel Prize winning economist: https://i.redd.it/tcwp3xnsewo21.jpg https://i.redd.it/tcwp3xnsewo21.jpg Back then, it was stuff like AOL that was considered the established and proper networking service, and the web was just a circus of trolls and buffoons. Also didn't Twitch start off as a site to view a webcam attached to some guy's head 24/7. I also remember a website where you could buy a pixel for a dollar, and the entire website consisted of 1 million pixels. I'm not saying that cryptocurrency will amount to anything, I'm mostly saying that no one here knows. HN has a kind of reputation for being incredibly dismissive of technology and missing the boat on a lot of things, failing to recognize the big picture, and to be fair it's not even an HN thing; most people fail to see the big picture. Afterall, who the heck needs Dropbox? Just trivially setup an FTP server mounting it locally with curlftpfs and then use SVN on the mounted file system. Right guys?