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by mwcampbell 106 days ago
We had Joel Spolsky saying that users don't read back in 2000, around the same time that Steve Krug published _Don't Make Me Think_: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/26/designing-for-peop...

So was the learned helplessness already ingrained by 2000? How far back does it go?