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by wmf 1171 days ago
Silicon Snake Oil (1995) is an early book that criticized Internet hype. Note that the author Cliff Stoll was an expert sysadmin who had much more experience using the Internet than many of the people promoting it at the time.

Computer science legend Donald Knuth used email from 1975 to 1990, then stopped using it. "It seems to me that 15 years of email is plenty for one lifetime." https://cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/email.html

What these examples have in common is people who used technology long enough for the novelty to wear off.