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nathan_bailey•8h ago

Hot take: a guy on a CompuServe forum in 1994 told me to stop compressing my backups, and it wrecked my whole view of "expert advice"

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henry_kelly54•16h ago

Rant: the computer history museum in Mountain View still has a 1993 magazine ad saying we'd all be video calling from payphones by 2005

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eric_ramirez67•1d ago

Warning: I spent 2 years paying for a streaming bundle I never used

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sethc12•2d ago

Rant: my grandpa said nobody would ever pay to watch TV, and I brought it up at Thanksgiving

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thomas_young•2d ago

Pro tip: my old boss at a Circuit City in Ohio bet me $20 the iPod would flop by 2003

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hugo50•2d ago

A guy at the 1994 boat show in Seattle told me computer charts would never replace paper, and I still think about that

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fisher.diana•3d ago

Almost tossed my grandfather's copy of a Popular Mechanics from 1949 until I saw the "computer" page

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scott.mia•4d ago

Am I the only one who thinks the "internet will never replace bookstores" people were right in a way

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river182•5d ago

Hot take: I called the 'just use a free site builder' advice dumb until it saved my sister $200

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schmidt.grant•6d ago

Appreciation post: my kid dug up a 1996 magazine at a yard sale in Dayton that swore online shopping would flop

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the_seth•6d ago

Update: my dad's 1999 clip said the internet would be dead by 2005, and I just digitized 14 hours of our home videos

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the_oliver•9d ago

Blew $85 on a "touchscreen" GPS in 2008 that took 45 seconds to register a tap, and a map folded in my glovebox beat it every trip

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charlie_lane85•9d ago

Why does nobody talk about the old AT&T ad claiming we'd all video call from payphones by 2000?

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jennifer_west•9d ago

Dropped $70 on a "smart" plant sensor that told me my fern needed water after it was already dead

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stellafisher•10d ago

TIL I hit 90% on a speech-to-text test in 2019 and swore my typing days were over, still waiting

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