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Luckily though we have the internet now which has accelerated the spread of new ideas and products on it. We're not dealing with a pre-internet world anymore so

Luckily though we have the internet now which has accelerated the spread of new ideas and products on it. We're not dealing with a pre-internet world anymore so comparing them is silly. I think you don't understand. People had no need of the Internet until applications such as online banking, online shopping etc were available to them. They didn't come pre installed on the Internet and whilst they wrre being developed most Internet users were people who got involved with it because it was cool new technology. Your mum and dad only got it when it had already become a mature technology.

sanswork 12y ago
I don't think you understand. Before the internet ideas took longer to spread as it was more difficult to disseminate information to people. Now it is incredibly easy which is why new technologies and services have increased adoption rates. Bitcoin doesn't have that because most people don't care about what it does better and do care about what it does worse. 6 years into the experiment including an entire year regularly in the news and still almost no one cares and the userbase appears to have actually shrunk this year from an estimated peak of ~1-2m to an estimated 500k. And even that 500k is considered generous. >Your mum and dad only got it when it had already become a mature technology. I appreciate your condescending tone and trying to imply that I'm a child. But I've been on the internet and programming since 95 and while far from the earliest user I was a lot closer to them than most people. I'm well aware of days when online banking wasn't a common thing. And the fact that the idea of it and online shopping didn't spread fast because we were largely in the pre-internet(it existed but had limited adoption) world then.
- celticninja 12y ago
  i didnt mean to be condescending, i merely meant the older generation such as my parents or grandparents.

sanswork 12y ago

I don't think you understand. Before the internet ideas took longer to spread as it was more difficult to disseminate information to people. Now it is incredibly easy which is why new technologies and services have increased adoption rates. Bitcoin doesn't have that because most people don't care about what it does better and do care about what it does worse. 6 years into the experiment including an entire year regularly in the news and still almost no one cares and the userbase appears to have actually shrunk this year from an estimated peak of ~1-2m to an estimated 500k. And even that 500k is considered generous. >Your mum and dad only got it when it had already become a mature technology. I appreciate your condescending tone and trying to imply that I'm a child. But I've been on the internet and programming since 95 and while far from the earliest user I was a lot closer to them than most people. I'm well aware of days when online banking wasn't a common thing. And the fact that the idea of it and online shopping didn't spread fast because we were largely in the pre-internet(it existed but had limited adoption) world then.

celticninja 12y ago
i didnt mean to be condescending, i merely meant the older generation such as my parents or grandparents.