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Grandma said the home computer was a fad in 1998, and I just found the tape she made about it
I was going through boxes at my mom's place in Dayton last weekend and found a VHS my grandma recorded off the local news in 1998. There's a guy on there saying the home computer is a fad that will blow over in 5 years, and that nobody needs one in the house when the library has them for free. My grandma taped it because she agreed with him and wanted proof for later. I sat on the floor and laughed for 10 minutes straight. My whole job now is remote work on a laptop, so that prediction aged about as well as milk. What's the worst tech take you've ever found saved on an old tape or clipping?
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mason28312d ago
The line about "nobody needs one when the library has them for free" is the best part. That guy probably thought the internet was a place you had to drive to. Meanwhile my worst find was a newspaper clipping my dad saved saying cell phones would never catch on because "why pay for calls you can make from home." I kept it and now I text him from the checkout line just to be annoying.
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