I expected IPv6 to be adopted quickly.
I expected 6GB to be more storage than I could ever fill.
I expected Windows to be quickly dismissed and Unix to become the standard.
I expected to have a screen built into my glasses by now.
My response then is mostly as it is now - it's just too confusing to read and write. The UIs - even at the time - telling people to put in a dotted quad - were... manageable. 4 is an easy number to understand. Numbers only is easy to understand.
I still maintain that had some intermedia come out adding 2 (or possibly 4) more spaces and we transitioned from
187.43.250.198 to 0.0.187.43.250.198, and defaulted most UIs to just prefixing with the 0.0 then grew from there, we'd have had much faster adoption, and still given ourselves 64k 4 billion address spaces.
But... I'm not a network technician, nor am I on the committees... I'm just someone who's had to live with the last 20 years of "ipv6 is coming, we're running out of ipv4 addresses!!" and... the last 5-10 years of trying to mess around with ipv6 and realizing it's still mostly out of my control (home ISPs, ime, do not, support it still).
tldr, I never expected ipv6 to be adopted quickly. I'm surprised it's made it this far.
It's actually simpler than IPv4 in many respects. For example, prefix delegation: My router is getting an IPv6 /56 block from my ISP using DHCPv6. It is then handing out /64 blocks of on several different subnets with minor configuration.
The average user doesn't care about IP addresses. They're using DNS.
How often do you watch other people browse the web?
If you count iOS and Android having a Unix core...
However, as far as I can tell every major tech company still expects that problem to be solved and for them to be the Next Big Thing. I don't know why else they'd be putting so much money & PR into consumer AR efforts when it's niche at best, so long as you have to hold up a device to use it, unless they fully expect hardware development to come through in the nearish future and make AR glasses the next smartphone, in terms of becoming must-have and driving the next wave of human-computer interaction.
Problem was the only stories about it were about the “glass-holes” walking into bars with a camera on their face. I thought it was an interesting “intervention” style art piece that showed people still expected obscurity, if not privacy.
I've tried the glasses from North, which has been bought by Google a few years ago. The projection of the screen on the lens looks cool, but the glasses had no traction in the market and the company tried to charge me C$1100+ for a pair of prescription smart glasses.
Starting from some point (Pentium Pro I suppose?) even x86 CPUs became RISC internally CISC externally.