Yeah, exactly. The early ones lasted a really long time. The debate is about how necessary making them shorter lived was exactly. It definitely happened though, and definitely did so before any of us were born.
There’s probably an even older example, but commercial history before 1850 is pretty niche.
They had to literally turn off Edison’s incandescent bulb. That was before planned obsolescence (see Vance Packard’s The Waste Makers) https://www.remodelormove.com/is-the-original-edison-bulb-still-working/
Yeah, exactly. The early ones lasted a really long time. The debate is about how necessary making them shorter lived was exactly. It definitely happened though, and definitely did so before any of us were born.
There’s probably an even older example, but commercial history before 1850 is pretty niche.