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ellis.charles
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4h ago
My smart thermostat bricked itself and the app said "all good" the whole time
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loganhart
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21h ago
Tried a 56k modem last month just to see if dialup was as bad as the old ads said, and the BBS loaded faster than my Comcast
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wendy674
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1d ago
DAE remember when a guy at work bet me $20 in 1998 that nobody would ever shop online?
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wyatt_fisher
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2d ago
Old magazine from 1999 said we'd all video call from wristwatches by 2010, so why am I still dialing into meetings from a laptop
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kelly823
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3d ago
Spent 2 hours organizing bookmarks by hand in 2019, then found out browsers already had folders
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jennifer_west
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5d ago
My uncle in Tulsa swore in 2008 that nobody would ever need more than 2GB of storage on a phone
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wrenwilson
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7d ago
My boss bet me $50 in 2019 that cashiers would be gone by now, and I had to pick a side
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william917
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7d ago
My dad used to plan road trips with a paper atlas and a highlighter, now I just talk to my phone
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johns18
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9d ago
My boss printed out a 2008 article saying smartphones would never replace laptops, and now we argue about it every lunch break
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fisher.diana
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10d ago
TIL the 1943 IBM quote about 'five computers' might be fake and I can't decide if that ruins the fun or not
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the_seth
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16d ago
That old 1985 Newsweek piece saying home computers would never catch on, I finally found the exact page at my library
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scott.mia
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17d ago
Pro tip: that 2004 Wired article saying the iPod would die by 2010 helped me win $50
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dakota_rivera
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17d ago
My grandpa kept a 1989 newspaper clipping saying nobody would want a computer at home by 2000, I finally read it last week
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jade221
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18d ago
A guy at a 2003 Best Buy in Dayton told me nobody would ever need more than 512 MB of RAM for a home PC
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danielmartinez
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18d ago
Showerthought: everyone laughs at the 1943 'no one will own a computer' quote, but the real bad prediction is the 1998 Wired cover that said the web would kill TV by 2008
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