Tim Berners-Lee created the first hypertext database called Enquire that was similar to a wiki in 1980. How many years did it take before e-commerce on the web was successful?
Except the status of blockchain over the last decade hasn't been a handful of hackers thinking about systems for internal use at CERN, it's been an ecosystem of ventures raising enormous amounts of cash for what they consider to be permanent systems with long term value.
The browser first became accessible to the general public in August 1991, and the graphic browser in September 1993. Amazon was founded in mid 1994 and had a revenue generating website delivering books from a million product catalogue the following year.
