The internet was around a lot longer than a decade before aol showed up and started pressing CDs.
That's the situation we're in with crypto.
Whatever that means, this is the world they're building.
The internet built the network that made that rapid growth possible. Crypto is not reinventing the internet.
ArpaNet wasn't an internet until at least 1983 when the military network was split off, and commercialisation began.
10 years after that we already had Tim Berners Lee inventing www in a lab that was connected to a global communications network and routinely used by hundreds of thousands of people.
Prior to that, for example, France had Minitel which already had distributed services, email, payments, orders and so on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel