I like that analogy, it's easy to forget that the internet started in the 1980s. Technological and societal developments could definitely move quicker this time around so if we zoom out, perhaps we are still very early. Great point.

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Day 20 - Building Lightswap - 15 yrs In Where r bitcoin’s profitable businesses?

> Are we really that early? 15 years in?

I like to compare bitcoin adoption with internet adoption and if that makes sense and we say [the "internet" started around 1980 with TCP/IP](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet#1973%E2%80%931989:_Merging_the_networks_and_creating_the_Internet), then we're basically in year 1995 and "bitcoin's iPhone moment" that puts it into everyone's hands is still 12 years away

And then we're _really_ getting started

_but could also happen a lot earlier, since we don't need to deploy so much hardware for bitcoin like we did with routers for the internet, it's mostly just software_