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3D movies. Over and over again it appears then vanishes because it’s always been a bit shit
Google+ they made it as this whole new social media thing and it flopped hard
The Metaverse
The Segway.
NFTs.
Shitcoins of various stripes and sorts.
3D Televisions
Digital Audio Tapes (DATs).
They were tiny tape cassettes that reported to have better sound quality than CDs.
They came out just after CDs became huge around 1987. People were speculating that it was a waste of money buying CDs because DATs were going to be the next big thing — this chatter lasted well into the early ’90s.
By about 1994, it became clear that no one was interested in DATs.
EverQuest Next
Zip drives.
100Mb storage on a single floppy disk? What was not to like?
This is going back almost 30 years now, but me and a mate started working for ourselves when they were the new big thing. I was doing web design and my mate was doing graphic design, and we did a lot of work together. So we both a got a zip drive so we could pass raw artwork between each other (this was back in the days of dial-up internet, if you’re wondering why we didn’t just use FTP or email).
Nine times out of ten, my drive wouldn’t read disks written by his drive, and vice versa. Never got to the bottom of it – we both got replacement drives, still the same thing. All this time later, I’d still love to know if anyone had any luck at all using them this way.
They were great for the time when it actually worked, but we had nothing but trouble with them. Ended up just using them as back-up devices, but they rapidly became redundant once writable CDs became affordable.
Although, to be fair, they could be a bit hit and miss too in the early days.
Minidiscs which were late 90s/early 2000s
Microsoft Surface (not the tablet) was supposed to be some wave of the future type of concept, imagine Minority Report. Alas, I don’t think it ever left the concept stage.
Take a peek: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VfpVYYQzHs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VfpVYYQzHs)
That tiny CD in the first Men in Black movie. Never came to fruition
Ouya
Yahoo Serious
MiniDisk. I had a Minidisk walkmen and deck and used it for 2 years or so. But then mp3 players showed up and it became kind of useless.
Ngage, a phone and and a videogame system! Too bad you had to remove the battery whenever you wanted to change games
Metaverse.
The Titanic
I wanna say 3D tvs but I didn’t know a single person who owned one.
Microsoft Zune
Johnny “Football” Manziel
Quibi
Those stupid NFT pictures that were great for money laundering. A stupid jpeg worth 20K is now $5
Slap Chop.
HD DVD. BluRay won over. Then streaming killed it all.
New Coke
Airship moorings at the Empire State Building
the push to talk on cell phones. everyone had one then poof
Google glasses
Not sure if it’s a big thing or a trend, but when I was a kid, I vividly recall Heelies being the “Must have” as they would “change the way that shoes worked and all that nonsense. Died out in a few months.
Olestra – the fat substitute. It was supposed to be revolutionary, and they came out with “Wow!” Doritos and Lays chips. But then everyone started having GI issues and the chips disappeared.
Theranos
FYRE festival