Those Who Have Supported Internet’s Rise Have Been Greatly Rewarded

As always with revolutions, some believed before others. The Internet missionaries are the ones who allowed the Internet to develop. Creator of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee can be considered one of the Internet missionaries.

Alongside the Internet missionaries came innovators.

These innovators immediately grasped the importance that the Internet would have in the future of the world. They therefore decided to rely on the Web to offer innovative services to users.

Users did not yet have a need for some of these services, but when they were created, they became a matter of course. Afterwards, it was no longer possible for users to do without them.

Take Amazon as an example.

You didn’t need to buy books online on the Web. You would go to your local bookstore. It was convenient, but it had its limits: it was often the case that your bookseller didn’t have all the books you wanted.

So you had to go around the bookstores in your city to find your book.

Jeff Bezos understood immediately that there was a need in this area, so he decided to create the largest bookstore in the world with Amazon.

Amazon responded to a need that existed but so users were not really aware of it because they didn’t know it was possible.

I’m talking about Jeff Bezos, but of course he’s not the only one.

The founders of Google did exactly the same thing by offering their revolutionary search engine. Mark Zuckerberg did the same thing with Facebook.

The list of Web innovators is long, but it shows that those who believed in the Internet first have been greatly rewarded.

Not everyone has had the opportunity to be a Web innovator. It took sufficient technical knowledge, but it also required a vision of what the future could look like.

On the other hand, being an early adopter is something much more accessible.

Once innovators launch services such as Google, Amazon, or Facebook, you can be an early adopter by adopting these technologies first.

Adopting these technologies makes you aware of their potential, and that’s when you need to be able to step up to the next level by making the decision to support their development.

This is exactly what some people do by investing in Google, Amazon or Facebook at the very beginning of their respective adventures.

The people who believed in these technology startups from the beginning are now millionaires.

Supporting a revolution when few people believe in it gives you a huge advantage over others when it later becomes mainstream.