Of course. I don't think anyone foresees anything they've created becoming popular to any considerable extent. I only just re-discovered Zelda Classic this year; the last I did anything with it was probably sometime in 2004-2005 so even I was surprised to see how far along things have come.
Not disagreeing with you there haha, but when I typed that I was just thinking about someone simply taking a hash and comparing it against a large collection of other hashes generated from common passwords, words, etc. since that's generally the first thing most people would do with a hash.