I can't help but feel de ja vu

TLDR: An opinion from some random dumbass that grew up a "poor". BTC will be around 20 years from now, and anyone that claims to know what will happen in the next 20 years is talking out their ass.

I was born in the 80's, grew up without the internet. I first saw the internet in 1994 at a friends house during lunch. I thought it was kind of cool, we spent 10 minutes loading a picture off the internet of boobs, and I didn't really think much about it for the next several years.

As a kid, I got SOOOOOOOOO good at mariokart 64, any childhood friend I played against I just absolutely crushed. I knew every single shortcut, I had nintendo power magazine, and I remember entering a "mariokart tournament" for kids at the PNE in Vancouver and just shitting on everyone.

A few months later I got my monthly subscription of nintendo power (which I always read cover to cover), and in the "shit post" area of the magazine, it had a small article about this thing called "the internet" and how it could one day completely change playing video games. It foretold of a day in video games, where instead of going over to your friends house to play, YOU COULD PLAY EACHOTHER FROM HOME!!!!!!!!!!

Man, I remember being so fucking hyped. I instantly called my best childhood friend Shawn, and told him about how we could one day play mariokart together "online". We would spend hours talking on the phone while grinding final fantasy 7, working on chocobo races in the golden saucer, or trying to hit level 99 so we could take on "emerald weapon". The thought of us being able to play a game together from home was just... So fucking inconceivable at the time.

If only we knew of the things to come... Being called slurs by sqeakers in voice chat in the 2010's lol.

The point of all this, nerds caught wind of the internet first. Just like nerds caught wind of bitcoin first.

The internet gained a TON of hype in the 90's, where it hit a fever pitch where Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks starred in a romcom about "meeting eachother online" in 1998 (There was a point in time where if you met your partner online, it was embarassing lol).

Hype, hype, hype! And then.... the internet just kept growing, until it finally hit the mainstream zeitgeist.

There was a surge of money, and it culminated in what we now call the "dot com bubble" where a bunch of household name companies eventually collapsed, or became shadows of themselves....

I'm talking, alta vista, yahoo, compaq, ICQ, myspace, CDnow, geocities, netscape etc.

Apple was on the verge of bankruptcy, google wasn't looking so hot, and the "internet fad" seemed to be coming to an end.

I can't help but feel a cultural de ja vu when it comes to bitcoin over the last 13 years... There have been some high profile companies that "dot com bubbled" and ate massive shit over the last year or two, and the public zeitgeist has once against shifted to "haha bitcoin, that's just fake internet money for losers"... FTX, celcius, Binance, and many many more high flyers have caught the headlines for eating shit... Just like tech companies caught the headlines in the early 2000's dotcom bubble.

In the early days of the internet, I didn't pay attention, after learning a bit more I thought "It's kinda cool", once I started using it I was hooked for life. I feel like we are in the dotcom bubble era of bitcoin.