@mawr @Fuego Basically; it was a whole new sound made with production methods that people simply hadn't figured out/weren't possible before, so of course it quickly saturated the landscape for a while. Same thing happened with a whole bunch of different sounds (drum machines, 303 lines, sampled drum loops/instruments including a few particularly notorious individual samples) over the course of the '80s and '90s.
@Thaminga @Fuego
Best example of that I can think of:
The.
Amen.
Break.
:D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v89CjsSOJ_c