I remember my brother-in-law trying to explain to us one of the first internet “mall” programs called Prodigy. He was talking about shopping in the internet mall with a mouse and going into virtual stores where you paid online with your credit card.
We thought he was crazy and had a sci-fi out of body experience.
Someone invented this crazy new thing that replaced the teletype machine. It was called a “fax”. You put papers in and “sent” them. But they never seemed to go anywhere, they just came out the other end. So people kept putting them in again, and again, and again, and again…………