I didn’t know about them in ‘09, but I knew about them long enough ago that if I had jumped when I thought about it, it would have may uncle Sam a heck of a lot of tax money, if I sold today. :-)
some guy in Norway bought $27 worth in 2009 for a computer course project...logged in a few months ago into his account and it grew to $870K...yeah — worthy investment - he cashed out part of it and is living nice!