The internet was pretty obviously in competition with a few obvious industries at that point —
like meatspace book stores — but caught (and is still catching) others off guard: cable TV, movie companies, music companies, FedEx / USPS / UPS, movie theaters, desktop software makers, book publishers, magazine publishers, shoe / apparel stores, newspaper publishers, video game console makers, libraries, grocery stores, real estate agents, etc. etc....
I feel
like meeting someone in
meatspace that I've developed a relationship with online would be a lot
like having a dream where your mind has placed a really familiar object in a place that it's not supposed to be...
like your car on a boat, or your mom in a space suite.