Not at all. In 1980 email had a tiny market share but really strong usage by those who had accounts.
True story, DEC included a free mail program with VMS because some developer wrote it. And they were baffled when companies started ordering VAXes mainly to use for email.
Web was similar in 1993. Very few users, yet folks like Adam Curry left his job as a famous “VJ” at MTV to start a website, buying the unused domain mtv.com for the purpose (you can guess how that turned out). I mention this because he was a total norm who got enamored with the web when almost nobody used it.
And Bitcoin, well...
For actual numbers, here’s a graph of computer users since 1980:
True story, DEC included a free mail program with VMS because some developer wrote it. And they were baffled when companies started ordering VAXes mainly to use for email.
Web was similar in 1993. Very few users, yet folks like Adam Curry left his job as a famous “VJ” at MTV to start a website, buying the unused domain mtv.com for the purpose (you can guess how that turned out). I mention this because he was a total norm who got enamored with the web when almost nobody used it.
And Bitcoin, well...
For actual numbers, here’s a graph of computer users since 1980:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EZI1TsJXYAAo9ES?format=jpg&name=...