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

[Electric_Andy]

Memory sticks. They were great for a lot of years, but I don't have any use for them now lots of things are cloud based. I remember putting music on them (8Gb seemed massive at the time) and sticking it into my car stereo. I guess they are still handy for confidential documents, but I can't see myself needed one ever again

 

[No Ta Doctor]

Memory sticks. They were great for a lot of years, but I don't have any use for them now lots of things are cloud based. I remember putting music on them (8Gb seemed massive at the time) and sticking it into my car stereo. I guess they are still handy for confidential documents, but I can't see myself needed one ever again

They're actually pretty good if you want to transfer a large amount of data quickly

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I have a rotary phone from the late '60s' that still works, so the land line will stay.

Almost nobody calls me on it except for my Dad anyway.

In fact, it's mostly used to find my mobile! 😆

Operator operator …

 

[nogoodnamesleft]

Assuming the power-cut isn't JUST in my house, how likely is it that the local broadband infrastructure will stay up in a power cut?

Also rural (tiny village) so plenty of power cuts and router/Wi-Fi Access Points all on UPS. On FTTC with OpenReach internet stays up through power cut. But recently changed to TrueSpeed/County Broadband FTTP but not had a power cut since changing but their cabinet in the village does make a constant buzzing and they won't have laid in power from a distance so I guess it's down to UPS in the cabinet and longer term experience will reveal how much UPS/consumption their cabinet has.

 

[Beebo]

I can take power directly from my electric car via a 3 pin adapter.
Very useful in a power cut.

 

[annedonnelly]

When is this? I'm not sure my parents are aware. They went through great pains when moving house to get broadband, new mobile contracts, and a landline because "what if we have a power cut". It seems an awfully expensive back-up, given that you can still use mobiles as long as you've got a bit of signal.

It's being rolled out at different times across different exchanges. I think one a few miles up the road from here has already been done, but not here yet. The mobile signal in the village here is poor and with an elderly population some of them have never got into mobile phones. I was trying to find someone to come and talk to the over 60s about the changeover but the best I could do was get a leaflet from Citizens Advice.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Cat translators. It was far from purrfect, then disappeared.

 

[Tenkaykev]

Seen this morning in a local charity shop.