21 Products That Somehow Lost Their Original Purpose, As Shared In This Online Thread

I really miss what it should be

I grew up with MTV. Oh, those were the days...

This. So many arguements about putting the toilet seat up/down when honestly, everyone should just close the lid once they’re done. The particles spread up to 6 m (19 ft) otherwise.

Ace Ventura is all I can think of! "Everyone loves a slinky!"

Cleaning your keyboard?

Most new oven models don't have this

Isn't this in a lot of first aid kits and such for this exact reason?

Wonder how many minutes it took after the initial product release that 1st forester thought that it would be funny to shoot Mike on back.. Maybe hours but definetly not days..

Cherries and peaches as well...

Now this makes a lot of sense.

It's been approved for use as a human sedative, it's used in operating rooms and ICUs. And remember those Thai kids that were trapped in the flooded cave? Each kid got a shot of Ketamine before the final rescue, it kept them quiet as heroic spent hours dragging them to safety through a dangerous flooded cave.

. . . In mental health institutions.

Great for removing stubborn, leftover glue after pulling the label off a jar.

Oh my Jesus Christ. I haven’t thought about these since I was in primary school. Back then, I assumed the ‘pipe’ in pipe cleaner referred the things that ran along the walls of my house and I didn’t question it. It’s only now, reading this as a fully grown adult, that I realise it’s not that kind of pipe at all. That update has been pending for decades!

No thank you. I don't trust my clumsy hands to hold it steady at the neck.

Then they named it really badly!

People used to drive with at the very least - gloves, dust coats, goggles, and hats on, if not full face masks. Because cars didn't have roofs or windows and the roads weren't paved, anyone who drove the first cars was going to get all the dust, mud, or weather in the world in the face.

Nice try, Minoxidil salesperson!

It's still used for some heart problems, and I have no idea if anyone who's sick enough to need it for medical reasons can still enjoy the side effects.

I'm no expert but isn't that lip filler not botox?

I think MS Excel was always used as a data analysis tool, where as MS Access was used as an informal database since 1992

Lotus 123 was invented as database/analysis Tool I remember programming macros in Lotus 123 back in 1990, Microsoft stole the concept and named it Excel, they gave it for free with Windows 95 and killed them, same thing with Word, they copied Word Perfect.

VisiCalc released by VisiCorp in 1979 for Apple II Lotus123 was released in 1983 MS Excel in 1985 Yes, I'm THAT old. Worked with all of them but, the best software effah! in those days? Sideways.....(for those who remember "heaven" opening up IF you were in an accounting department with a super deluxe 9-pin impact printer from..Okidata.)

How unbelievably fascinating this one is...

Most abused calculator in the world! Whole fortune500 companies.run on it...

People are even using it to create art.

I thought excel was for running large corporations on, the heck with the 3 million dollar ERP system.

MS Access had a fairly steep learning curve for the casual user. It was much easier for most users to store data in an MS Excel spreadsheet. MS Excel worksheets are data storage tables.

It's a rip off of Lotus 123 ... and that wasn't the first spreadsheet.

I very much doubt it