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lowbloodsugaryesterday at 7:07 PM1 replyview on HN

I know right? And there’s only a market for maybe 5 computers in the whole world.

Paul Krugman (1998): predicted the internet’s economic impact would be no greater than the fax machine’s.

The 1876 Western Union memo dismissing the telephone as having too many shortcomings, and the banker telling Horace Rackham not to invest in Ford because the automobile was a novelty.

We are in good company!


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orphereusyesterday at 7:27 PM

Past performance does not guarantee future returns.