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buntopolis t1_j8y1xxi wrote

Reply to comment by DarthBuzzard in Exclusive: Tencent scraps plans for VR hardware as metaverse bet falters by BlueLightStruct

God damn, was it really 1992 when PCs became ubiquitous? That’s wild. Looking back at my life, I suppose I almost always had one or at least access to one. Didn’t realize I was actually alive when they really took off.

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DarthBuzzard t1_j8y2kcd wrote

Mainstream. It still took longer to become ubiquitous, as only a minority of homes had them in 1992, but it had passed a 25% household adoption rate, which from what I can tell, is a figure that tends to get used for judging mainstream success.

Here's an interesting set of statistics showing the rough sales of the emerging PC industry: https://web.archive.org/web/20120606052317/http://jeremyreimer.com/postman/node/329

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