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danielmartinez•11h 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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jamesmason•12h ago

My brother in law bet me $50 that voice dictation would replace typing by 2005, and I finally paid up last month

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mila_mitchell•2d ago

My uncle in Reno bet me $50 in 2016 that nobody would ever want to watch videos on a phone

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tylerw92•2d ago

Some guy in 2006 said nobody would ever watch video on a phone, and I laughed at him last night on my couch

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wright.cole•3d ago

Showerthought: an old magazine from 1995 said the internet would flop because nobody wants to read on a screen

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willow732•4d ago

My dad bet me $20 that self-checkout would never catch on, and I finally collected in 2019

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dakotawells•4d ago

Paid $150 for a 'lab tested' USB drive in 2019 that died in 3 weeks

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thead44•7d ago

Pro tip: that old 1956 IBM prediction about 5 computers in the world? I found the actual quote in a library book last week

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the_james•7d ago

An ad from 1994 claimed the internet would die because nobody wants to read on a screen. I printed it out at work and taped it above my desk

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jordan653•8d ago

My dad laughed at me in 2004 for saying I'd never need a fax machine again

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uma_reed26•8d ago

Grandma said the home computer was a fad in 1998, and I just found the tape she made about it

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wade558•8d ago

Appreciation post: my 1998 Gateway box still boots faster than my 2019 laptop

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the_val•10d ago

My uncle bet me $50 that the Segway would replace walking by 2015, I found the 2001 Time article he printed out

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piper175•14d ago

My dad told me in 2005 that nobody would ever pay to watch videos on a tiny phone screen

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sarah687•15d ago

A guy on a forum in 2019 told me my "tech predictions" post was too nice, so I started digging up the dumb ones

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