Crazes: A flash in the pan - then it's gone.

[mp3manager]

dfen5 said:

Must be zillions of these in landfills the world over.

I have about ten of them....along with Laserdiscs, Mini-Discs, DV tapes, SACD's, CDV discs and 3'' CD's.

I bought into just about every flash-in-the-pan technology.

[Bungleaio]

Mini discs deserved to do a lot better than they did.

[burritoNinja]

Had a camcorder that took mini-CD's. That was in 2008 just as flash memory was becoming big but was still very expensive.

[wildcat45]

Bungleaio said:

Mini discs deserved to do a lot better than they did.

For a decade or so they were the industry standard recording format for radio news. Killed by solid state kit which to start with was quite bulky. Bulkier than Mini Disc. We had some strange solid state Marantz kit which was installed into the body of a portable DAT recorder for reporters to use. All the convenience of solid state digital recording with the inconvenience of a bulky tape machine. Then came the Flashmic, solid state recording in the body of a microphone, super ceded by minitutre recording gear today iPhone apps and so on.

I worked for 20 years as a radio journalist. Most of my archive - if you can call a random selection of partially labelled mini discs an archive - is on this format. I'm need to buy a MD player so I can load stuff onto a hard drive.

[davhill]

Flash in the pan? Well, if you will smoke while backing one out after a curry...

[markmullen]

Bungleaio said:

Mini discs deserved to do a lot better than they did.

Ideal for car use too, rugged enough to be chucked in the glovebox, small, random access, they were good. I got a Minidisc walkman for my 18th, £400 the thing cost, I had all the Jamiorquai albums on original MD too.

[Billyray911]

Hedgehog flavoured crisps
Video Nasties
Chrome wheel arch trims
Compact discs hung from the rear view mirror
Before twin tape stereos came along,playing on one machine and recording on the other (if that makes sense)
Garbage Pail kids stickers
Scratch and sniff
Red triangle films on channel four

[Johnnytheboy]

Morningside said:

Cotty said:

Tiger stripes on cars, haven’t see them in years

Fake tiger fur glued to the dashboard.

SHARON KEVIN or whatever sunstrips.

Randomly having a sticker in your car window telling car thieves what brand of car stereo you had:



...having a sticker with "on a mission" on the back of your car. Funniest when seen on the back of a stty Corsa stuck out of the wall of a house on a corner a few years ago.

[g3org3y]

markmullen said:

Bungleaio said:

Mini discs deserved to do a lot better than they did.

Ideal for car use too, rugged enough to be chucked in the glovebox, small, random access, they were good.

I had a Sony MZR91. Unfortunately lacked the LP facility of the later recorders but otherwise great bit of kit.

Edited by g3org3y on Saturday 28th May 22:45

[NelsonM3]

Anyone remember those yo-yos in the late 90s that had lights and "held" when spun out or any I going mad?

[ApOrbital]

Yes still have one unopened.

[gizlaroc]

g3org3y said:

I had a Sony MZR91. Unfortunately lacked the LP facility of the later recorders but otherwise great bit of kit.

I still have one, ordered from Japan when they were released, had one in blue and one in burnt orange too.

[Blib]

This thread.

[ApOrbital]

What are you doing here blibbers?

[Blib]

I'm on day release.

[Thankyou4calling]

Flash mobs
Pulled pork
Vaping shops
Fish pedicures

[condor]

idiotgap said:

Clarks Polyveldt shoes.
I never had any of these, but I think that geography teachers of the 80s used to wear them. I couldn't understand why anyone would want cornish pasties on their feet at the time. Now... I quite fancy a pair - they look comfy!

I had a pair of them, very comfortable as walking shoes. Don't think they lasted very long though or perhaps I wore them out too quickly.

[glazbagun]

Thankyou4calling said:

Flash mobs

They were a real victim of their own sucess. It's almost like they became uncool by being cool.

It didn't help when corporates made their own.

[chrisb92]

Genuinely laughing out loud at some of these!!

Segways (2015)
Photographing supercars on Sloane street (soon)
Blackberry Messenger (BBM) (2010-2011)
Spiking your hair up at the back (2005-2007 style)
England's hope of winning a major football tournament (every other June)
Corsa VXR (They used to be the car of choice for about 6 months. Now it's all Fiesta ST's)
PSY (Gangnam style)
Fernando Torres being good (Liverpool 2008-2010)
A bunk bed, but with a desk underneath instead of another bed (seemed very popular when I was young for about 2 years)

[Morningside]

Thankyou4calling said:

..
Vaping shops
..

Dunno about that, these things seem to be springing up more and more.