When the Netscape Navigator browser dropped in the mid 90s, a lot of people were dismissive about...

[CelticCrow]

42. I think you are confused, I'm not sure how you would interpret my post as any kind of "metric"

I was not responding to the OP about "general consensus" I was responding to a post stating

"I don't know anyone who said the internet was a passing fad. Must have been said by people who didn't actually use the net."

with an anecdote coming from an actual CIO of a large company who did indeed use the internet. I make no claims about consensus whatsoever but since I heard it from folks on the business side as well, it was certainly an opinion held by some folks at that particular point in history. The CIO claiming it was just the most egregious example in my personal experience.

I was merely responding to a post essentially stating, I never saw it must not have been a thing, with an example of it actually being a thing but make no claims that it was a consensus of opinion.