For all prices during its life you can look at coinmarketcap, due to the dao hack, hard fark was happened and now real main chain is ethereum classic and it is decentralized and immutable.
I don’t think eth has the propriety of attracting masses like bitcoins. It is just new to the crypto world and totally dross. I don’t find any new and interesting thing in it. Eth has never exhibited any pump where it has touched the sky, leaving people happy. Moreover, decentralization is very common now in the crypto world.