Quote from: LFC_Bitcoin on November 09, 2014, 01:48:42 PM

I won't take credit for this but I read this on reddit earlier.
What do you think guys?

People have made lots of comparisons between bitcoin and the internet in the 1990s. I decided to make the comparison a bit less vague by comparing some specific landmarks. First, here's a list of websites founded before 1995. Looking at some common landmarks, I'd say that the closest parallel between bitcoin adoption and internet adoption is 2014 and 1994.

Common Landmarks in 2014 and 1994:

1.) The first big businesses adopt. Pizza Hut gets a website. Overstock/Dell begin accepting bitcoin.

2.) Big Porn enters the game. www.sex.com is established. xhamster and others begin accepting bitcoin.

3.) Politicians enter the game. www.whitehouse.gov is established. Senator Edward Kennedy gets a website.
Dozens of politicians begin accepting bitcoin for their campaigns.

4.) Coinmap goes from 1000 locations in 2013 to 5000 by mid-2014. There were about 627 websites in 1993 which climbed to about 2,738 by mid-1994, a roughly 5-fold increase.

1994 and 2014 are the beginnings of adoption by the major players in society: government, big business, and porn. I know that most of you guys prefer to look at charts and hear theories about why everything repeats every 32 weeks or 250 days, so I apologize in advance for bringing up these wishy-washy landmarks.

I would just like to add that early adoption has not yet ended for bitcoin. It is still walking its baby steps.