The killer app of the Internet was email, not the WWW as a whole. ISPs would provide a free inbox, and by 1997 Hotmail made free email available globally.
Email was what got people to sign up for dial-up internet in the first place. Prior to that, you'd have to schlep over to a copy shop to fax things over. Only businesses could afford the cost of a fax line.
The fallacy is in thinking that Web3 needs to achieve a critical mass of users that the WWW did. That's incorrect. Consumers adopted email, not WWW. That was just something that took off after the core adoption already happened. Same way Instagram took off after enough people bought camera-enabled smartphones.
Email was what got people to sign up for dial-up internet in the first place. Prior to that, you'd have to schlep over to a copy shop to fax things over. Only businesses could afford the cost of a fax line.
The fallacy is in thinking that Web3 needs to achieve a critical mass of users that the WWW did. That's incorrect. Consumers adopted email, not WWW. That was just something that took off after the core adoption already happened. Same way Instagram took off after enough people bought camera-enabled smartphones.