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holly_craig
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9h 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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8d 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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9d 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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11d 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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15d 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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16d 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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17d 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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18d 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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21d 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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23d 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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riverwhite
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24d ago
Appreciation post: a 1949 issue of Popular Mechanics said computers would weigh 1.5 tons by 2000
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gonzalez.phoenix
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25d ago
That 2004 Wired article about Second Life being the future of work got me, and I spent 3 years defending it
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jake_kelly24
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25d ago
A guy in a 2011 forum thread told me podcasts would never last because nobody wants to listen to people talk, and now I think about him every time I finish a 2 hour episode
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jake_young
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25d ago
Hot take: that 2006 magazine I found at a yard sale changed my mind about smartwatches
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rosejackson
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26d ago
My brother in law said nobody would ever want a camera in their phone, so I bring it up at every holiday dinner
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