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Real, cynical old articles about new things read aloud. Based on @PessimistsArc.
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siden 2. juni 2021
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Artists Against the Eiffel Tower (1887)

Artists Against the Eiffel Tower (1887)

The Eiffel Tower is as iconic of France as croissants and baguettes, and equally emblematic of Paris as Notre-Dame or the Arc de Triomphe. Yet, before completion for the 1889 World’s Fair - the project was treated by some as an industrialist “Tower of Babel” that was anti-ethical to French taste an…
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😷 'S.F. Feels Good Without Mask' - 1918, The San Francisco Examiner

😷 'S.F. Feels Good Without Mask' - 1918, The San Francisco Examiner

In the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic San Francisco quickly instituted a mask mandate, when it was repealed there was a countdown in the streets and jubilation as reported on the front page of The San Francisco Examiner. To the right of the report was a piece by Annie Laurie celebrating the moment and l…
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📻 Weird, Ghostly and “Supernatural” Antics of the Radio (1931)

📻 Weird, Ghostly and “Supernatural” Antics of the Radio (1931)

Did the rise of 19th century technologies - such as radio - lead to an increase in ghostly sightings? That’s the question Atlantic writer Derek Thompson asked on Twitter this week and it brought to mind a 1930s piece from the archive titled: Weird, Ghostly and “Supernatural” Antics of the Radio tha…
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✈️ “A Skeptical Nation Visits Upon the Airplane the Doubts it Once Felt for the Automobile" - The New York Times, 1928

✈️ “A Skeptical Nation Visits Upon the Airplane the Doubts it Once Felt for the Automobile" - The New York Times, 1928

At the end of the 1920s aeroplanes were becoming a more common sight in the skies, in 1928 The New York Times reported on growing public disdain, comparing it to past reactions to transport innovations like the automobile and bicycle. The piece was subtitled “A Skeptical Nation Visits Upon the Airp…
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💉 'An Absurd Prejudice' - The New York Times, 1875

💉 'An Absurd Prejudice' - The New York Times, 1875

146 years ago The New York Times published an article lamenting anti-vaxxers, the piece began:  "One might suppose that the popular prejudice against vaccination might have died out by this time, considering it has been practice for nearly a century." Today this statement is as amusing as it i…
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📺 'The Lazy Half-Wit Comes Into His Own - A British Writer Reveals His Views on The Drawbacks of Mass Communication' (1953)

📺 'The Lazy Half-Wit Comes Into His Own - A British Writer Reveals His Views on The Drawbacks of Mass Communication' (1953)

This screed against mass-media appeared in a 1953 issue of The New York Times, it was an excerpt from an article written by British novelist J.B. Priestly for The Newstatesman. Today people yearn for the days of unsocial mass-media, but we forget that once mass-media was a strange new cultural infl…
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✈️ 'The Flying Machines Which Do Not Fly' - The New York Times, October 9th, 1903

✈️ 'The Flying Machines Which Do Not Fly' - The New York Times, October 9th, 1903

69 days before the Wright Brothers achieved manned flight The New York Times posited it could take between 1 and 10 million years to achieve. The piece chides those experimenting in the field and posits that human ingenuity will never achieve what evolution had done over millions of years. The piec…
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📷 “Photographs are made to lie” (1897) + 🚲 “Bicycle Insanity” (1896)

📷 “Photographs are made to lie” (1897) + 🚲 “Bicycle Insanity” (1896)

These two pieces from the last decade of the 1900s cover two big consumer trends at the time: personal photographs and bicycle riding. Photographs of oneself were popular, as they are now and so was retouching! Photoshop used to mean a literal photography shop where edits were made to photos to enh…
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🪞 'Those Deadly Little Mirrors' - Chicago Tribune, 1912

🪞 'Those Deadly Little Mirrors' - Chicago Tribune, 1912

In 1912 hand mirror use evoked similar reactions to smartphones today, the Chicago Tribune reported:  "WOMEN CONSTANTLY WALK INTO DANGER. Accidents which are due to women’s passion for looking in mirrors in stores are slight compared with ones which result from the use of the fascinating littl…
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♟️'Chess Playing Excitement' - Scientific American, 1859

♟️'Chess Playing Excitement' - Scientific American, 1859

♟️ The year is 1859, American Paul Morphy had just defeated Europe's top chess masters leading to a surge of interest among the American public. Scientific American tried to quell the hype, suggesting chess playing was a waste of time that would be better spent outside, the piece stated: "A game of…
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