| endimion said: Lol I love people claming cloud features are a marketing myth... It's about as accurate than 15th century people insisting earth is flat and the globe is a myth... |
There's a funny irony in those words, as the whole part about "15th century people insisting earth is flat" is just a myth in itself.
Quoting Wikipedia:
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Wikipedia says: The myth of the Flat Earth is the modern misconception that the prevailing cosmological view during the Middle Ages saw the Earth as flat, instead of spherical.[1] The idea seems to have been widespread during the first half of the 20th century, so that the Members of the Historical Association in 1945 stated that:
During the early Middle Ages, virtually all scholars maintained the spherical viewpoint first expressed by the Ancient Greeks. From at least the 14th century, belief in a flat Earth among the educated was almost nonexistent, despite fanciful depictions in art, such as the exterior of Hieronymus Bosch's famous triptych The Garden of Earthly Delights, in which a disc-shaped Earth is shown floating inside a transparent sphere.[3] According to Stephen Jay Gould, "there never was a period of 'flat earth darkness' among scholars (regardless of how the public at large may have conceptualized our planet both then and now). Greek knowledge of sphericity never faded, and all major medieval scholars accepted the Earth's roundness as an established fact of cosmology."[4] Historians of science David Lindberg and Ronald Numbers point out that "there was scarcely a Christian scholar of the Middle Ages who did not acknowledge [Earth's] sphericity and even know its approximate circumference".[5] Historian Jeffrey Burton Russell says the flat-earth error flourished most between 1870 and 1920, and had to do with the ideological setting created by struggles over evolution.[6] Russell claims "with extraordinary [sic] few exceptions no educated person in the history of Western Civilization from the third century B.C. onward believed that the earth was flat", and credits histories by John William Draper, Andrew Dickson White, and Washington Irving for popularizing the flat-earth myth. |
It's really interesting how many people falsely believe that the big astronomic debate/breakthrough that happened in the middle ages was about "flat earth vs. spherical earth", when it was in fact "heliocentric model vs. geocentric model".
LOL, maybe in 100 years or so, there will be a similar myth about "21st century people insisting that some mystical "cloud" would come around and magically make their hardware 50 times more powerful, despite most of these people not even being able to explain what "the cloud" is". And then, the Members of the Historical Association will feel forced to clarify that "with extraordinary few exceptions no educated person believed that the cloud would actually bring something truly new to the table".
