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No it wasn't a small group of enthusiasts. It went nation-wide in the 1990s (in the US, and most affluent nations), rapidly. One of the fastest product adoption
by adventured 4y ago
No it wasn't a small group of enthusiasts. It went nation-wide in the 1990s (in the US, and most affluent nations), rapidly. One of the fastest product adoptions in world history.
In a middle of nowhere town that I grew up in, in Appalachia, it was common to use Netscape + dial-up access circa 1995-1999 (that included at home, at work and at school). Tens of millions of Americans rapidly adopted the Web due to Netscape making it easy to navigate and that all happened in about five years. The Web became a common story point of movies, TV, advertisements (@ everywhere campaigns, email, urls on movie screen ads, etc etc); it went from almost nowhere to everywhere in roughly 4-6 years.
A tiny fraction of the US and world populations have utilized ChatGPT. It would be equivalent to where the Web was at in terms of adoption in ~1994.