History of the internet looks similar to the reaction to bitcoin

[Shiva Bhardwaj]

Marc Andreessen:  My colleagues and I built Mosaic in 1992. It’s hard to overstate how contrarian a bet that was at the time. Believing in the whole idea of the Internet was pretty contrarian back then. At the time, the dominant metaphor was the information superhighway. People saw advantages to more information. At some point we got 500 TV channels instead of 3. But much better than more TV wasinteractive TV came. That was supposed to be the next big thing.