Most of those technologies were controversial in their inception among the nerds of the time. Remember Eternal September? Linux/Windows people making fun of Apple hipster fans? Mainframe engineers deriding PCs as unserious and video games as childish?

>The most passionate, intelligent people are usually a decent indicator of where culture is going to go.

That's a naive view of cultural determinism. The software landscape would have been very different if a handful of lawsuits had gone one way or another. Hell, even Unix and Linux were hobby projects that accidentally got big.

Also crypto is a grift lol, one of those is definitely not like the others