Next big things that never lived up to the hype, failed, or disappeared without a trace... What do you remember??

[Vapin' Joe]

Imagine windmills and electricity had come together in the 18th century and where we would we be now. Imagine the electric car took hold in the early 20th century, instead of being suppressed by oil interests. Where would we be by now?

Electric cars were suppressed by batteries not giving long enough run times, nothing else.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Imagine windmills and electricity had come together in the 18th century and where we would we be now. Imagine the electric car took hold in the early 20th century, instead of being suppressed by oil interests. Where would we be by now?

Suppressed by windmill interests???

 

[Sharky]

When I was working in IT in the 1980s/90s lots of "the big new thing" came along and then

went

mostly very technical and better than anything else
until another company came up with a better idea

I have recently heard that OpenVMS - an operating system - is being discontinued
it was always massively better than anything Microsoft came up with
(even when then recruited the person who wrote it!!)


but marketing won out as usual

sorry - probably means naff all to most people - but VMS being kicked out means ANOTHER load of my memories, expertise and experience is now as much use as if it was based on designing new Steam Trains

I too was in IT and it seemed like every ten years, everything changes. You learn one bit of software and just when you've mastered it, everything changes.

There was one bit of software, "The Last One". It was a programme generator, which was driven by user input via a Q and A dialogue. Never experienced it, but suspect that it wasn't the last piece of software.

Then Lotus 123, was really good and my favourite, but was pushed to one side by the Excel upstart.

 

[Hover Fly]

Olestra, the fat substitute that caused diarrhoea, thankfully never approved in Britain.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I thought you were in your 80s!

No, just you dear.


What makes you say so anyway?