• Th4tGuyII@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    If it’s any consolation, I don’t think there’s a single significant thing in history that someone hasn’t wrongly identified as a passing fad

    • Meowoem@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      I see people now saying AI is a fad lol, people really do think they were born at the end of history.

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      1 year ago

      The older parts of my town have metal rings set into the curbs for tying up horses, because they were sure those new-fangled cars were just a fad. (Mind you, most of these neighborhoods were being built around the time the Ford Motor Company started up.)

    • NoFuckingWaynado@lemmy.world
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      I remember playing around with a hyperlinks demo on a Mac and thinking it was dumb and would never be useful for anything. About a year later the World Wide Web exploded.