Early to everything but Bitcoin, strangely enough.
Used Linux since 2000, got the first Android G1 phone, lived through web 2.0 and all the early social platforms (Flickr, del.icio.us, Twitter), RSS readers, torrenting and blogging. Even had broadband when that was rare and home wifi before routers were supplied by ISPs as standard.
But I wasn't interested (or educated) enough in money to grok Bitcoin for a very long time.
Also never had an interest in tablets. Still don't. They suck.
I was late with Vuejs and Javascript ES6 (I was using jQuery too long) which is (a frontend) part of doing my business now.
I was early with installing Bitcoin on a homecomputer somewhere in 2010 (I was 13 years old) to see what it was (I did not understand it in that time, my interests were somewhere else). I ignored it till the half of 2020...so that was late.
Late is all relative to your own timeline i suppose
I was early with installing Bitcoin on a homecomputer somewhere in 2010 (I was 13 years old) to see what it was (I did not understand it in that time, my interests were somewhere else). I ignored it till the half of 2020...so that was late.
Many such cases. You were living life, no wrong in that
I just started having fun with it in 2014 on a technical level since I'm a developer first and foremost. But at the time, I didn't understand the why of Bitcoin. Only the technical side impressed me.
In computers and coding since the late 1980's, was using BBSs via dial-up in the early 1990s and been using the internet since 1993. Linux since 1999. Social media since 2007, Android since 2012.
I dismissed Bitcoin for a long time, because I thought it was a scam. It was based on an article I saw that said Bitcoin was dead, which I didn't even bother to read beyond the headline, and I think it was actually about MtGox. Even though I had been a libertarian / ancap since childhood, before I even knew it had a name. The propaganda machine did its job. It's easier for me now to see why others continue to be fooled.
Late adopter. Didnt get a smart phone until 2015 ( everyone in office made fun of me for using a flip phone ). When i finally did adopt, i got the windows smart phone 🤣
Didnt get my first proper smart phone until 2017ish when i inherited my wife's old galaxy S3
Outside of narrow-use quantum computers (e.g. D-wave), there isn't anything to adopt.
There is so much hype surrounding quantum computing that the field will likely experience a quantum winter, for the same reasons as the prior AI winter.
Well, I still haven't been using any voice activated home assistants, while many of my friends have. I refuse to put spyware in my home. I already have spyware in my pocket!
My shop and CAD teacher in high school singled me out to join his programming class, but he'd got me in trouble for doing stick death art so I was like "f-you man!"
It was such a missed opportunity. I was already programming calculators ... but I didn't realize that was "real" programming until much later. One big lol from my calculator days is I would program without line breaks not realizing they weren't supposed to be like that.
Usually most tech. The one that comes to mind was the iPhone (smart phones). Took me 3 years.
I was more than happy enough with my Nokia 3310 brick phone and throwing it in the air to test its robustness. Or the slick design of the Motorola Razr, that got me by.
Smartphones. I kept refusing to waste such amount of money for a phone, when I could make and receive calls and send and receive text (SMS) with my trusted all GMS phones (had a few of them).
For everything else I had computers, desktops, laptops, and servers, which were most of the time within my reach.
I finally capitulated and got my first Android phone when I decided I wanted to be able to have a bitcoin wallet on my pocket. Had been using localbitcoins by SMS for a while already. :-)