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by gauravk92 5076 days ago
We start it, early adopters. The mass picks up on it after a few years, only if it gets started in the first place.
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Exactly!
> We start it, early adopters. The mass picks up on it after a few years, only if it gets started in the first place.

Which, coincidentally, is a LOT of what you can see happening these days with "social networking" and "cloud computing" and all those other hypes and trends that basically existed very well in the 90s and before but now the public is "catching up" with technical developments.