I think almost everyone was guilty of this at a point.
I for one never got the chance to overlook Bitcoin cause I got in at a much later time and there was already so much information and hype around it that I got hooked in instantly, finding it out through this forum was an extra advantage.

What I usually tell people who say they wish they had invested in Bitcoin earlier and then sell of in 2017 for huge profits is that; if you cannot hold for the next ten years now with the price history, you would have not held when there was little information about it even if you knew about it.