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What are examples of technology that hampered progress rather than lead everyone to euphoria?
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>>52215024
The selfie stick.
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""""""""Social""""""""" media
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>>52215125
/thread
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>>52215024
Windows
Mac OS
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>>52215024
copyright law
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>>52215024
Intel's black marketting in the early 2000's
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>>52215294
true that
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Fax machines.
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the "muh thinness" concept
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Space Shuttle
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Social media.
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>>52215024
The Shamwow
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>>52215125
winner
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>>52215331
but what if your desk is too narrow?
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>>52215024
windows95
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Free as in Freedom Software.

Imagine what could have been achieved the past 30 years if these mentally ill autists had been put in work camps with strict daily tasks rather than being allowd to be on the internet 18 hours a day sperging out on obscure forums.
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C and Unix
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>>52216988
>what could have been achieved
and no one could use it
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>>52215024
Most version of IE
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>>52215024
The fax machine
High mpg gasoline motors
Fracking
Apps
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Many things about the Internet.
Meth.
I don't know meth is pretty damn amazing considering it's completely man made
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Java
Java script
Flash
Python
And the worst of them all: fortran
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>hampered "progress"
Fucking progressives.
Fuck Woodrow Wilshit.
>>52217878
W-whats wrong with fortran anon?
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>>52215024
video games, so many wasted hours
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>>52215024
Copper wire.

If we had of just by passed this crap and went straight to VoIP over fiber at the beginning of the 1900's, just think where we'd be now!
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>>52215125

This, so much this. For reasons that I hope would be obvious to at least, some of those in this thread.
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electricity
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N gage
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>>52216988
How do I partition a windows system

"I'm sorry, no forums contain the answer for this"

Yeah you retard. These people would have solved more then consumer grade problems simply by "sperging" onto forums.
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4chan

So much wasted human potential

Kids visit 9gag, leddit or whatever and grow up a couple years later, leaving the place behind. Not this shithole.
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>>52219146
i chuckled with my mouth closed and boogers came out my noes
xD
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>>52215024

Windows
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>>52215294
>>52215310
tell me more
never heard of anything löike that
google only wants to sell me Black Ops when I google that
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>>52219102
>fibre
why not just 200k LTE everywhere m80
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3.5 mm jack
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>>52215333
Not really fair, as originally thought up it would be one small part of a system for permanent space exploration, then nixon said no to everything but the shuttle
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Everything made after when you were 15, luddite.

Tech... tech guys. Normies, etc, facebook, you "CAN" use it for shit so everyone must

Meanwhile, in the real world...
>use modern tech and modern internet speeds and smartphones to do business and ignore timesink traps
>gee that was hard

It must be so hard for the various Neds out there to get through the day.
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>>52219182
this desu senpai
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Showers at Auschwitz
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The handgun.
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Condoms
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video games both hampered progress AND led everyone to euphoria
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>>52215024
aMoled
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>>52215294
>>52215310
seconded, more details please
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Social media, apps, touchscreen-only input, selfie sticks, web 2.0, Windows 8.X, anything made by Apple, smartwatches, prebuilt PCs, self-driving cars, webkit browsers, flash video, green energy, HP printers, the list can go on and on.
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>>52220663
They black marketed in 2000$ a lot of it and it made bad fire AND
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>>52220812
Mixed races>>52220812
Mixed races
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>>52220822
No results of it on google. Intel's rich enough that they could easily bury the results though.
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>>52215024
oil refinery
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>>52220887
Enjoy your botnet. Duckduck
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>>52220887
they prohibited partners like Dell to use other hardware than intel chips with money
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>>52219408
I think he means those hardware manufacturer deals that were judged to be illegal.
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