Here's the first post on HN about Bitcoin: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=599852

A comment from the iPod thread: "AAPL is going down fast! - Mmmm. APPL is already down $1.00... Looks like the markets aren't looking too favorably on Apple's new forays into the digital device market." [1]

Today on Yahoo Finance: 'Tesla Falls After Announcement - Tesla Motors (TSLA) fell nearly 2% and remained in the lower parts of a six-month-old consolidation. Late Wednesday, Tesla said all of its new vehicles will be equipped with hardware that enables fully autonomous driving "at a safety level substantially greater than that of a human driver." [2]

[1] http://forums.macrumors.com/threads/apples-new-thing-ipod.50...

[2] http://www.investors.com/market-trend/stock-market-today/sto...

Now go look at Theranos, and what the defenders were saying here.

Or the hundreds of other bad ideas that were criticized and failed because they were bad ideas. Picking a few big successes doesn't make an argument. Because, I agree, there are naysayers for everything. I'm glad; keeps people honest.

This is one of my favorite nuggets of internet history–also excellent because the thread ID (500) makes it easy to find since it'll redirect from: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/500.

In all fairness, the initial iPods were nothing to write home about and, as I recall, iTunes didn't even run on anything except Macs--then a rather niche hardware platform. Of course, iPods improved relative to the competition but it was really the iTunes store and Apple's ability to fundamentally change how music was sold that really had the impact.