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Re:Wall Street rethinks blockchain projects as euphoria meet... by JumpCrisscross on Thursday March 29, 2018 @12:59PM (#16708668)
> The internet as we know it didn't offer the average user much value until the mid 90's

The Internet was useful to academic, financial, government and military users in the 1970s [1]. It was built and iterated to solve real problems. Real users' inputs, many of whom were experts in their fields, were incorporated into its design.

[1] http://www.computerhistory.org/internethistory/1970s/

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Re:Wall Street rethinks blockchain projects as euphoria meet... by adventured on Thursday March 29, 2018 @05:15PM (#16711091)
Not to mention corporate email was popular in the 1980s, long before the Web reached a large number of traditional consumers. Even the Queen of England sent an email across Arpanet back in 1976. Microsoft Mail came along in the late 1980s.
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