Your grandmother deciding to trade up from that dial-up connection

From Blender via Wired blog:
20 Biggest Record Company Screw-Ups of All Time

[Edison] hated jazz: “I always play jazz records backwards,” he sniffed. “They sound better that way.” So after releasing the world’s first jazz recording—Collins and Harlan’s “That Funny Jas Band From Dixieland”—the company spurned the craze in favor of waltzes and foxtrots. Edison Records folded in October 1929.

Edison: inventor of the light bulb, founder of one of the evilest corporations ever, and hater of jas music. I wonder how he would feel about his patents paving the way to record and play back hip hop music? Note that Arthur Collins and Byron G. Harlan were very, very white.

Here's Collins & Harlan, with "That Funny Jas Band From Dixieland", over at archive.org