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parkerb75
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14h ago
Can we talk about the 'paperless office' promise from 1975? My shop is drowning in more paper than ever
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richard_mason
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22h ago
That 1981 prediction that home computers would never catch on because 'people don't need data in their kitchen'
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noahhernandez
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2d ago
Am I the only one whose boss said the Wayback Machine was a waste of time and then a client wanted a 2004 snapshot
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richardharris
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2d ago
Update: my nephew's "phones will never replace cameras" rant from 2009 got dug up and he won't speak to me
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fionap70
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2d ago
A commenter torched my old tech predictions post and now I fact-check before I laugh
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holly_craig
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3d ago
TIL the $80 'AI copywriting' course I bought in 2023 was mostly a PDF of old blog posts
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coleman.christopher
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12d ago
TIL that IBM once predicted a 5 MB hard drive would be enough for everyone, and I finally get why old predictions fail
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zaram47
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12d ago
I finally stopped mocking the '640K ought to be enough' crowd after reading my old 1997 build log
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rubyj11
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15d ago
My IT guy in 2001 said nobody would ever buy music online, and I still think about that
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pat719
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18d ago
My dad bet me $50 in 2004 that nobody would ever shop on a phone
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lee.cole
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20d ago
Watched a 1996 news clip predict we'd all buy groceries through our TVs by 2005, so I tried it for a week
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michaelrodriguez
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20d ago
My uncle bet me $50 in 2006 that nobody would ever want to watch movies on a 3 inch screen
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wade_young86
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22d ago
I used to laugh at people who said the Segway would replace walking, then I watched a guy in Seattle eat it on a curb
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riverf34
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25d ago
My boss made us switch from writing tests after code to writing them first, and the difference at our 12 person shop was night and day
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ben_lopez25
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27d ago
Vent: My buddy swears the Segway was gonna replace walking, and I just found the 2001 article that started it
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