Things that were meant to be the next big thing, but then never lived up to the hype, failed, or disappeared without a trace... What do you remember??

[Mad Doug Biker]

^^^Full possible length thread title that^^^ 😆

Anyway, Segways for a start, but there will be many, many other things, like Advantex cameras, iPods, Blackberries, etc.

What do you remember?

 

[BrumJim]

The Internet of Things

 

[Aston]

Betamax

 

[Oldhippy]

Sinclair C5.

 

[fossyant]

Oval chainrings. Been there, done twice, gone again ! Wide bars, narrow bars, somewhere in the middle !

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

The Velocipede/Bicycle.


... Oh, no, wait...

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I also remember milk in cans at one point.

'Tab Clear', that was another - A Coke/Pepsi flavoured drink, only it was clear, like fizzy water. How very counter - intuitive.
Actually, I see the occasional resurrection of the idea, but I don't think it ever really fares well.

 

[Oldhippy]

Peace in our time.

 

[fossyant]

Short Cranks, long cranks - just you wait.

170mm for the win !

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Peace in our time.

Well, ironically, if Tronald Dump or Pooh - Tin do nuke us all, there will nobody left, so I guess a kind of peace would reign... For a while at least.

 

[VinSumRox]

Pagers

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Mini - Disc players and Zip - Drives.

 

[Oldhippy]

Laser discs, in the UK at least. Massive in Asia.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

110 Cameras.

 

[Tenkaykev]

Blockchain / NFTs