In 1830, Half of Yale's Students Were Expelled for Refusing to Use Blackboards in Math Exams
josh_wills · x · 2026-09-28
A viral TIL: in 1830, half of Yale's students were expelled because they refused to use the new technology of the era — the blackboard — for math exams. The anecdote is widely shared as an analogy for resistance to new technology today.
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