15 Modern Conveniences That Were Met With A Bizarre Amount Of Resistance

Change is hard, but technology is good. That's the constant push-pull of living in the modern world. Humans are both endlessly creative and also afraid of new developments. Sci-fi writer Douglas Adams once said that “anything that's invented between when you're 15 and 35 is new and exciting and you can probably get a career out of it. Anything invented after you're 35 is against the natural order of things.” And that feeling of “against the natural order of things” can really send people spiraling into moral panics. 

The world was full of toxic trolls long before comment sections (looking at you, comment section). But some of these toxic reactions seem downright silly to us today. People found reasons to sneer at light bulbs, needlessly gender umbrellas and teddy bears, and even approach cheeseburgers with skepticism. Here are a few modern comforts and conveniences that people recoiled at in their early stages: