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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Aug 14, 2017 9:37:33 GMT
For example, I was recently reading a magazine from the very early 20th century called Edison Phonograph Monthly, and at least two issues called bicycles a fad.
Also, in the 1950s many people thought rock'n'roll was a fad.
What are some other things that were wrongly assumed to be fads? Also, what are some things people wrongly assumed weren't fads?
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Post by general313 on Aug 14, 2017 16:12:52 GMT
For example, I was recently reading a magazine from the very early 20th century called Edison Phonograph Monthly, and at least two issues called bicycles a fad. Also, in the 1950s many people thought rock'n'roll was a fad. What are some other things that were wrongly assumed to be fads? Also, what are some things people wrongly assumed weren't fads? Videogames were written off as a fad around 1984 when the industry faced its first downturn. When sales slumped, analysts were predicting that it was all over. |
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Aug 14, 2017 16:52:20 GMT
For example, I was recently reading a magazine from the very early 20th century called Edison Phonograph Monthly, and at least two issues called bicycles a fad. Also, in the 1950s many people thought rock'n'roll was a fad. What are some other things that were wrongly assumed to be fads? Also, what are some things people wrongly assumed weren't fads? Videogames were written off as a fad around 1984 when the industry faced its first downturn. When sales slumped, analysts were predicting that it was all over. Oh yes, the 1983-1984 North American video game crash (happily, games continued to prosper elsewhere, but it was dark days in the US and Canada). |
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Post by PreachCaleb on Aug 25, 2017 16:05:11 GMT
Wasn't rap/hip-hop written off as a fad? Also, heavy metal?
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Post by marianne48 on Oct 9, 2017 0:11:10 GMT
The Beatles. Director Richard Lester rushed through the making of the film A Hard Day's Night in order to cash in on the hysteria surrounding the band of cute moptopped musicians that no one would remember in five years' time. Yeah, yeah, yeah....
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Post by hi224 on Oct 9, 2017 8:24:16 GMT
Data processing actually.
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Post by general313 on Oct 9, 2017 19:10:52 GMT
Wasn't rap/hip-hop written off as a fad? Also, heavy metal? What about disco? That was a fad, no? |
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Post by Hairynosedwombat on Oct 10, 2017 12:31:05 GMT
Data processing actually. Sure. Every corporation was spending millions on computers in the 1960s despite the lack of real applications, because of the potential, which was realised as soon as applications were written. |
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Post by camimac on Oct 10, 2017 13:20:41 GMT
What are some other things that were wrongly assumed to be fads? Also, what are some things people wrongly assumed weren't fads?
Before the 1990s if I saw someone with a car phone, I thought, how cool. But, now there are cell phones and nearly everyone has one. They make car phones -- and pay phones for that matter --seem like a fad. Now, I'm going off topic here. But, when Superman was introduced so many years ago, he'd slip into a payphone booth to change from Clark Kent to Superman. He could not do that today.
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