30 Things Hailed As “The Next Big Thing” That Ended Up Being Total Flops Instead

To be fair: we did not complain when Lara Croft looked like this :-)

Racoons routinely mistake them for dumpsters. I've seen dozens of pics of racoon footprints on the back of a cyber-truck

never was going to be the next big thing in rural areas where a truck needs a real bed.

W@nkpanzer.

Such an abomination to the car world. Or any world actually

A Segway is what you use to segue from the road to the hospital.

Doesn't help that the inventor ran one off a cliff and died.

If you're too weak to walk, you're too weak to stand. That means that you're just stupidly lazy if have one of these

I used one on a tourist tour and loved it. However, it was a large city in Spain and largely pedestrianised.

I remember the buildup to these. No description, just that whatever it was it was going to be revolutionary. I also remember the wtf? look on reporters faces when they were revealed.

I like saying "fungible".

Not Fu*kin Tangible !

Strange choice of picture to illustrate NFTs

came to be a very effective moneylaundering

What are NFT's (sorry im still not fluent in Acronym)

Yet no-one told Zuck that they are copying Second Life

Zuck has read/watched Ready Player One, then tried and failed to create OASIS.

I honestly can't tell if that's an actual picture of the Suk, or if it's digital.

I remember logging into second life and was so bored out of my head.

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It was a great example of what happens when people do actually listen to experts and act accordingly. Sure, there was never any real risk to home computer users, but there were very many big systems used, for example in banking, that posed genuine risk of failure if they were not properly validated or updated.

Looks like peternormal flunked science too many times, and since he doesn’t understand it, he’s decided to rail against it and call it stupid. Says a lot about him, doesn’t it?

I'm also in IT and knew it was going to be ok. my biggest worry was that some drunk driver would hit a power pole and cause a panic when the lights went out.

That's when this shi//ing on science started. Just because the people fixing it were so good that most of us noticed nothing, some idiots thought that was proof that it was false alarm. And then a lot of other idiots who weren't even out of their nappies when it happened decided to believe the first id/ots.

We were well aware of the Y2K issue when I started in programming in the early 80s. Every piece of code we wrote had to be written to work around the issue. Lots and lots of people fixing legacy code over more than a decade made it a non-event. My favorite Y2K story, however was when they interviewed the sr. engineer at a small dam and power plant near us. He said "I'm not worried about it. It's not going to have any impact on us at all... there are no computers in this entire installation. It's all still running on the original 1930s equipment!"

The concept of AI is one of those things that sounds good on paper, but will take decades, maybe even a century, to perfect in reality—-only the greedy a******s who own AI companies are pushing it to be everywhere LONG before it’s actually ready, and that is dangerous. Already dangerous, tbh, as the lazy are using it in place of their own learning and thinking. I am far from a being a Luddite, but I really don’t want AI in my home or business until at least most of the bugs are worked out. I’m 64, so probably won’t live to see that day arrive.

One of the AI platforms that absorbs info on its own from the internet became a racist hate spouting application. Just like most of the humans using the internet. Garbage in = garbage out.

And everything is loaded with AI c**p. You search for a recipe, a craft, a drawing, a picture... only AI c**p. I'm not using Pintrest anymore because it is all not real, everything AI

I'm sorry, but people who think they are able to think say what wagwa2001l says. I don't know where to begin when it comes to chatgpt alone, helping with practical stuff and doing research that has lead to so many good things in my life.

We cannot trust artificial intelligence until we can properly deal with natural stupidity.

Except for soda bottles.

To be successful, it has to be all or nothing, and embrace the motto "think metric", not try to convert from older measures. I remember in Australia when we transitioned in the early 70s there was still a lot of residual literal translation (e.g. advice columns saying "dissolve 454g of washing soda in a bucket of water...") but once people started thinking in terms of 500g, 100m and other round numbers, and goods were packaged that way, I think the conversion went smoother. You will never progress if you retain old measures and label things as "X milliliters (Y fluid ounces)"

Cowboys refused to trade their ten-gallon hats in for 37.85411784 liter hats.

And we all regret that everytime we have to google how many ounces are in a gallon or how many feet are in a mile.

Only USA and a few other 3rd world countries do not use metric. Just because YOU failed to make the switch does not make it a "flop".

Yeah, it was a pretty good site, something like Tumblr lite, and I've met some interesting people there.

Anyone remembers RWJ messing with the G+ every episode of =3?....no? Gosh I'm old.

I had a Nokia Windows phone years ago as a work mobile. It was actually very good and did a lot of things well. Just no-one developed apps for it.

Would have loved this. My Android phone and MS computing environment are at war with each other. Endless workarounds.

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I had one. It was an HTC and the damned thing would overheat and shut off. Start it up, 4 or 5 hours, the battery got hot and shut off again. I went through 5 of them in 11 months (there was a 2 year warranty on them) but AT&T finally cut me off saying there was no way in hell 5 could be bad. Turned out they were. (I still have a dead one on my desk!) I had a year left on my contract with a dead phone and they wouldn't replace it. Not even with a different unit! I had to buy a phone off eBay.

My partner had one and loved it. The main problem it had was a lack of app support from both Microsoft and the app developers.

Partner at least weekly laments the death of the Windows Phone.

We want to mitigate climate change, but the people who own the biggest polluting businesses don’t. They don’t realize their money won’t protect and buy them, or their children, resources that don’t exist anymore.

The blame for this can be laid at the door of capitalism. "Iff it is going to cost money then it is someone else's problem "

Too many people still think it is a myth.

Lets not forget he is going on trial next year for r**e and sexual a*****t.