I was thinking maybe he was too young to remember accurately what things were like in 1990 (I was 20 at the time). But then @molly0xfff wasn't even born then, and she's smart enough to know better.
In trying to find out Dixon's age, I found this Forbes interview where he says he's "been working full-time on the Internet really for 25 years as an entrepreneur and then investor" for whatever that's worth.
@funcrunch i wonder if that's actually the problem, like it was easy for HIM to get on the internet in 1990, so he assumes it was for everyone and doesn't bother to do much research on what the internet was like for other people because why would he need to, he was there!
Good point. Also, it's not that the *Internet* wasn't accessible to the public then; I remember using Gopher and email, etc. before then. It's the *web* in particular that certainly wasn't widely accessible until later that decade.
ETA: Although I also realize far fewer people even had home computers until much later.
ETA2: Actually Gopher came out after 1990; should have checked rather than trusting my own memory!
