Back in the 90's
I used to work at the cable company while I was in college and I was fixing computers at the cable company and explaining how the internet was going to change everything and how you can pay bills online etc. etc.
I quit school because I taught myself HTML and CGI and they weren't teaching it in schools yet, and focused on my first site, the first nationwide apartment search database. I got a bunch of appetizers from the nationwide apartment association and then sold it to competitors and made a great bundle of cash.
Things have changed a lot but one thing that hasn't changed is people are completely ignorant of their devices and computers and the doors they are opening to hackers and the world.