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Re:Digital coins may be on the verge of going mainstream by wil421 on Thursday August 03, 2017 @10:05PM (#14925795)
The web was mainstream when I was like 10 on AOL doing who knows what with all my classmates. My grandparents even got into it and sent me emails and chatrooms. Geocities was more or less main stream and kinda like pre-social media. Those communities were a little different.

I can also remember using Altavista and Lycos before I ever heard of a Google. My mom introduced me to google to help me research papers for school. She showed me how to do complex searches and is by no means good with technology.

Absolutely agree bitcoin is not ready for main stream. It's daunting for non techies. It wouldn't be mainstream until I can use it as easy as cash or card. Or mom and pop places accept it.

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Re:Digital coins may be on the verge of going mainstream by bdamm on Thursday August 03, 2017 @10:24PM (#14925865)
Your mom is an outlier.
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Re:Digital coins may be on the verge of going mainstream by coldtea on Friday August 04, 2017 @03:26AM (#14926996)
Not really. Don't know when you lads/lasses were born, but the Web was already mainstream, with everybody and their dog getting on it, on 1998-9 or so. It didn't have to wait until Facebook.
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Re:Digital coins may be on the verge of going mainstream by rubidium on Friday August 04, 2017 @08:23AM (#14928132)
In the US, 30% adoption by 1998, 50% adoption by 2000. But much higher rates of adoption for the wealthier households and much lower for the poorer.

So depends on your economic state then.

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Re:Digital coins may be on the verge of going mainstream by coldtea on Friday August 04, 2017 @01:08PM (#14930128)
30% is still totally mainstream, even if it's the richer 30%.

Imagine a music genre that 30% of the population enjoys. In what way wouldn't that be totally mainstream?

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Re:Digital coins may be on the verge of going mainstream by phaemon on Friday August 04, 2017 @09:18AM (#14928423)
> Your mom is an outlier.

That comment is funnier when you haven't read the parent comment. I imagine it as a statistician's snub.

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Re:Digital coins may be on the verge of going mainstream by wil421 on Thursday August 03, 2017 @10:36PM (#14925912)
Probably for using Google early but not search engines. Vaguely remember school computer labs with various search engine in late 90s.
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