Paul Graham on Twitter: "Startup founders troubled by trolls (i.e. every successful one) should hang this excerpt from an 1878 NYT editorial in their office.… https://t.co/ybiNmVZ1nX"

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1. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 22 Sep 2017
  Via @calestous, who got it from this article:https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140922/18035428602/moral-panics-1878-ny-times-warns-people-about-evils-thomas-edisons-aerophone.shtml …
  
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1. Jon Zornow ‏ @jonzornow 23 Sep 2017
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  Being fair, the singing doll is definitely creepy enough to be of mildly deleterious characterpic.twitter.com/0Wb43WO0kx
  
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1. ᴊᴀᴋᴇ‏ @hypogolic 23 Sep 2017
  Replying to @paulg
  
  NYT article "Flying Machines Which Do Not Fly" is another great go to. Orville Wright's diary on same day reads "We started assembly today."
  
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1. Jay Sanchez‏ @SanchizeUnfltrd 23 Sep 2017
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  Holy cow wow!?
  
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1. ᴊᴀᴋᴇ‏ @hypogolic 23 Sep 2017
  Replying to @peterrhague @PeteHague @paulg
  
  Indeed. Complete with belated 1969 retraction. Suffice it to say the Times' record on aerospace predictions is particularly poor.
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1. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 23 Sep 2017
  Replying to @peterrhague @PeteHague
  
  I remember that one. Talk about damning. Interesting data point about knowledge of physics though.
  
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1. Firas Durri‏ @firasd 23 Sep 2017
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  I appreciate the cheeky tone compared to the accusatory anger of trolls nowadays though.
  
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1. Matthew M. Gonzales‏ @matthewgonzales 23 Sep 2017
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1. Lucy R. Fisher‏ @richmondie 23 Sep 2017
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  "They didn't have all these innovations when I was young!"
  
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1. Firas Durri‏ @firasd 23 Sep 2017
  Here's the full article, it's clearly somewhat tongue-in-cheekhttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140922/18035428602/moral-panics-1878-ny-times-warns-people-about-evils-thomas-edisons-aerophone.shtml …
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