Before high-speed internet was common, downloading anything larger than a few megabytes meant committing to an overnight wait. It was a test of patience and faith in both your connection and your computer.
Remember when the internet was filled with personality quizzes and everyone seemed to be forwarding their results? There was a time when answering a few silly questions felt like the most important thing you could do that day.
Here's a list of 13 tech gadgets once marketed as revolutionary but ultimately showed how hype often outpaces reality.
Everyone remembers being handed a fundraiser packet and being told to sell as much as possible. The problem was that half the items were things no one actually wanted in the first place.
TV ads have always tried to capture attention, but some ended up capturing the internet’s imagination in ways no one saw coming. These commercials were meant to sell products, but they wound up getting laughed at, remixed, and shared for years.
Several regional grocery chains tried to expand across the United States but eventually failed due to competition, high costs, and shifting consumer habits.