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Re:Andreessen on Crypto by CyberDildonics on Sunday June 27, 2021 @09:29AM (#27651424)
It might feel like this but it is anything but true. Prodigy was available in the early 90s and the age of 286 computers. AOL and compuserve were available very early too and for years their uses were email, online encyclopedias, looking up jpegs and eventually chat rooms. Lots of people saw no need for it in the dialup days. It took a decade for the first cable connections to become available.

Right now cryptocurrencies have taken off to an extent. Everyone knows about them but the eco system is a giant mess.

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Re:Andreessen on Crypto by arcturus17 on Sunday June 27, 2021 @06:05PM (#27655910)
> It might feel like this but it is anything but true. Prodigy was available in the early 90s and the age of 286 computers.

Amazon was launched in 94. My dad was buying books from Barnes and Noble and Amazon and having them sent internationally around 96. By the end of the 90s the internet had 250M users carrying out all kinds of activities, including commercial.

The comparison with crypto just does not stand its ground. It's been 13 years and counting and there is barely anything to show for it except a lucky few people riding Lambos.

[1] https://stats.areppim.com/stats/stats_internetxfcstx2017.htm

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Re:Andreessen on Crypto by CyberDildonics on Monday June 28, 2021 @12:25PM (#27663926)
8 years ago I was buying from tigerdirect, newegg and overstock. Bitcoin being crippled to only a few transactions per second for the entire world set things back a good amount which was probably a big part of the point in doing it.

https://markets.businessinsider.com/currencies/news/crypto-u...

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