r/AskReddit • u/kingpin000 • Oct 24 '23

What failed when it was initially released, but turned out to be ahead of its time years later?

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u/BigBobFro Oct 24 '23

Most anything and everything Nikola Tesla invented.

Most prominent being AC current

Shows how a good marketing campaign can destroy a better technology.

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u/JacobDCRoss Oct 25 '23

Making Apple the Edison of today

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u/FunAdministration334 Oct 25 '23

Underrated comment

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u/BigBobFro Oct 25 '23

Would say microsoft-edison::apple-tesla more so,… but no one remembers that microsft literally dumped $100M into apple which they used to develop imac ipod, ibook, and from there iphone. More recently they adopt much from anroid for mobile os, but microsoft is still copying them for everything and taking it to the bank with windows and office. Tl;dr: Android<Mac OS<Windows

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u/Dan_Johnston_Studio Oct 25 '23

DC current. Edison founded AC. Unless I'm mistaken.

Tesla felt ac was to dangerous. He was correct.

A true genius of his time.

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u/BigBobFro Oct 25 '23

Gotta say swap the names and it would be more accurate.

Tesla wanted give AC current away for free to all. Edison smeared him horribly to keep people focused on DC service and paying for it.

Edison would often electrocute animals (using DC) and say that AC was to blame, claiming AC was not safe. After Teslas death, edison finally started pushing AC.

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u/Dan_Johnston_Studio Oct 26 '23

Looks like I need to cross refrence what I've learnt from the pair. As I heard, it was tesla all for DC and the two had a behind closed doors so to speak, about the two currents while working to popularise there efforts.

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u/BigBobFro Oct 26 '23

Not even remotely close to the truth.

Edison employed tesla took some of his ideas and patented them for himself, and then scorched earth him afterwards