This was a great post on what the space looked like in 2010 (and why almost nobody knew what bitcoin was when it was valued at under $1 (and under $0.01 for the first half of the year).
How did people know about bitcoin in 2010
https://teddit.net/r/Bitcoin/comments/hthmur
Or the actual r/Bitcoin post (which was automatically archived, several years ago):
https://reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/hthmur