How does BTC reach the general public though?
What event will push BTC forward?
Hardly anybody is interested.
People compare BTC to the internet in 1995, will we follow the same path or are we destined for failure?
This comparison is often touted but it's misguided. Bitcoin is the first example of blockchain technology put to use.
Gopher is an early example of widespread usage of the internet. How many people still use 'gopher' ?
Gopher was an application layer protocol. As far as I know it ran on top of the TCP/IP protocol which we still use to this day.
Bitcoin is very similar to TCP/IP, and its network effect much, much stronger.