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by mrwong 3123 days ago
Thats like WarnerBrothers saying in 1995 That movie streaming will never be a thing because its ridiculous to stream with a 56k Modem. Now we have Netflix and Youtube etc.

I could go on and on, but the kneejerk resistance is extremely polarised and I feel like preaching the Internet in 1995 to some 65year old Executives at a newspaper.

Watch this to remind yourself that the internet was not always around. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_L3Y2_YiT-A

There was some other interview where Marc Andressen holds a presentation of the Netscape browser and is asked by a reporter what cool websites he can show or think of. He didn't have a good answer and for sure were not able to predict products like Facebook.

Watch this if you want to here some good arguments. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SYVX2wcMVM

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> Thats like WarnerBrothers saying in 1995 That movie streaming will never be a thing because its ridiculous to stream with a 56k Modem. Now we have Netflix and Youtube etc.

False analogy.

> I could go on and on

Please do. You haven't event started.

> the kneejerk resistance is extremely polarised and I feel like preaching the Internet in 1995 to some 65year old Executives at a newspaper.

Nope. You haven't event started preaching, much less to a 65 year old.

> Watch this to remind yourself that the internet was not always around

What does this have to do with bitcoin? Oh. Right. Nothing

> presentation of the Netscape browser

I've yet to see you go and on about bitcoin. So far you're rehashing stories about the Internet.

> Watch this if you want to here some good arguments.

An hour-long video can be easily distilled into a number of bullet points. Please, do go "on and on".

Gl in the future dinosaur