It will never take off!

[RATTER15]

Things that when you heard about them you said:

That will never work, that will never take off.

1) Plastic car bumpers.
2) Milk in a cardboard box

When a calculator first became available to joe public, we were never permitted to take them into school, we had to use our brains to work things out!

[B00]

Betamax video players....oh wait.....

[joggerjayne]

CDs

I thought they were a gimmick for geeky people.

[factor-fiction]

One thing I was correct about was 'edible underwear'- anyone else remember that?

[RATTER15]

Factor, I think you can still get edible underwear in the sex shops cant you, im not sure they were ever for more than that.

[factor-fiction]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edible_underwear
Apparently it is stilll available at Ann Summers etc, so maybe it did take off.

[joggerjayne]

Factor ... they still sell that in Tickled !

I think mine is past it's "best before" date.

[chrissa1]

To my shame:

Fax Machines.
Digital Cameras - my sister used to live in Hong Kong and came home on a visit with one. No I thought, they'll never catch on!! We still laugh about it today.

[RATTER15]

http://www.edibleunderwear.org/

[joggerjayne]

The Sinclair C5

[factor-fiction]

I suppose when edible underwear was launched in 1975 the sex angle went over my head- I assumed it was to save you having to wash them after you'd worn them.

[ummmm]

Mobile phones. They were just for show off yuppies..

[chrissa1]

It didn't JJ.

[DrFilth]

>> "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." -- Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943. <<

[Frank97]

Text messages
Twitter
Both still seem like stupid ideas to me!

[ummmm]

Text messages are brilliant.

[jno]

plastic bumpers are rubbish, exactly as I predicted. Bend one and it costs zillions to repair. The whole idea of original metal bumbers was that you didn't have to repair the whole car.

[hellywelly4]

I remember when we all had 'finger' indicators on cars, and then the flashing indicators were brought in. There was an awful fuss - people said we wouldn't be able to see them when the sun was out. That must be in the 50's I would think.

[jno]

I thought finger indicators were a waste of time, what's wrong with sticking your arm out?

[Ankou]

jno, i damaged the seal below the doors on one side of my car on a stupid kerb in an underground car park in france. when i looked at it, i realised that the seal and wings and side panels were all one piece - practically had to remove the side of the car to repair......and you don't want to know how much that cost.