was there this much Fud about the internet as with bitcoin today?

[cuddaloreappu]

the amount of fud about bitcoin is much big... was there similar fud about internet in its origin years

[Remember remember the 5th of November]

I don't remember much, but while there were a few, not as much as today. Bitcointalk has turned into a troll feeding ground.

[aigeezer]

There is this much FUD about everything, once you start to look beyond the headlines. We live in interesting times.

Think for yourself or someone else will think for you (I think).                 

[Unbelive]

I is all about FUD nowadays. Wherever you look, shills, trolls and piles of FUD.

[Eastwind]

Reading beyond the title to the key to fight fud.

[LiteCoinGuy]

guess alot:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4I-fMM9RESM

[TopherB]

I is all about FUD nowadays. Wherever you look, shills, trolls and piles of FUD.

It's not nowadays it is human nature to resist change. Look at any innovation at any time and read what they were saying. The newspaper editorials way back when they were discussing putting electricity in homes are hysterical (In both senses of the word.)

The internet did make it easier for the 'common Joe' to spread whatever idoicy he cared to though.

[MaxDZ8]

the amount of fud about bitcoin is much big... was there similar fud about internet in its origin years

No, not even close. Maybe I've just been lucky but I recall everyone being quite enthusiastic about being able to just post in a forum.

The amount of good thinking was incredible.

[cr1776]

the amount of fud about bitcoin is much big... was there similar fud about internet in its origin years

Yes.  "It is only for porn."  "No one will put their credit cards online, it isn't safe."  "It is too hard to use."  "Email is to ephemeral, I like hand written letters."  "Email gets lost."  "Web sites are scammy."  "Banks can't be online without being hacked."  "It is a fad."  And then there is an old favorite from the 'genius' Paul Krugman:

"By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet's impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine's."

etc.

Every change is met with FUD from entrenched interests.  (They just didn't always call it FUD!)

[cuddaloreappu]

guess alot:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4I-fMM9RESM

Really enjoyed

[aigeezer]

Gentle introduction to the etymology of "FUD", for readers who were "born yesterday": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty_and_doubt

Fascinating stuff - no kidding. Sample: "Microsoft soon picked up the art of FUD from IBM, and throughout the '80s used FUD as a primary marketing tool, much as IBM had in the previous decade. They ended up out FUD-ding IBM themselves during the OS/2 vs Win3.1 years."

Quick war story from an old man - I was a young IT manager in the 60s and I got up my nerve to buy the then-new Memorex tapes instead of IBM tapes for our mainframe tape drives ($12 instead of $50 per reel). The IBM rep got wind of this and said to me with a straight face "It will be like sandpaper through your drives". That FUD has rattled around in my head for 50 years - powerful stuff.

[Soros Shorts]

The internet has gone through both periods of hype and FUD. For example, I remember when Google IPO'd 10 years ago I bought some shares and everyone just laughed at me saying "they are just a search engine".

[CoinHoarder]

What some call FUD, others call an honest attempt at making a point.

[Beliathon]

Bitcoin is the truth, and it is money. That's a very dangerous combination to the establishment, it's far more threatening to the establishment than the internet was. It is therefore only natural that it is being met with much greater resistance than the internet was. Nations states are only just warming up...

[BittBurger]

Bitcoin is money.

Money is a whole different animal than "Information" (the internet).

Comparisons between Bitcoin and the Internet should be spoken with that important distinction in mind.  

Free exchange of Information is something that was already protected by laws.  So the internet's growth happened naturally and without much resistance.

If we lived in a world where information was outlaw-able, controlled by 3-6 major corporations, or poised to nullify the relevance of major financial institutions, then the internet would've had a much different path.

The path Bitcoin is going to be taking.

-B-

[toleng]

What some call FUD, others call an honest attempt at making a point.

This is technically true, however what most people consider to be FUD is actually FUD and has no real expectation to have any truth behind it.

[CryptoCarmen]

guess alot:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4I-fMM9RESM

Really enjoyed

Really good

[Lethn]

When you actually start learning about stuff and how it works properly instead of just blindly absorbing everything people state as fact you start to see a lot of things are FUD, it's because we know a lot more about Bitcoin than the news does that so much of it is bullshit to us.

I regularly see misleading statistics, inaccurate scientific research and more when I look at what the media puts out, hell on a small documentary I saw once about Jewellery I was exceptionally pissed off when a guy made a silver ring and hadn't finished it properly ( No polishing was done probably because of time constraints ) when he was demonstrating how a ring was made and that pisses me off to this day.

[Elwar]

The same type of people who are against Bitcoin had this to say about the Internet in 1998:
"The growth of the Internet will slow drastically, as the flaw in 'Metcalfe's law'–which states that the number of potential connections in a network is proportional to the square of the number of participants–becomes apparent: most people have nothing to say to each other! By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet's impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine's."

[Lethn]

Wasn't that actually Paul Krugman? And I just looked it up! It was! lol!