# YouTube of the 1890s

Canonical page: https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2006-10-21-youtube-of-the-1890s

The piece uses the Electrophone to argue that technological ideas can disappear for decades before infrastructure makes them viable.

Blog post · Hermeneutic Heretic · 21 October 2006

## Where it lives

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## About this item

- Type: Blog post
- Published: 21 October 2006
- Published in: Hermeneutic Heretic
- Language: English

Topics: media-history, technology, innovation, on-demand-media.

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