They promised that this product would change everything, but it crashed and burned hard.

Amazon's shopping buttons. They pushed really hard for those, and I never really saw the point.

They even originally announced them on April 1st. They said it wasn't an April 1st joke,

but I'm still skeptical. I saw plenty of social media posts from people saying,

hey, this is a joke, but I kind of want it. And I think Amazon's But I'm still skeptical. I saw plenty of social media posts from people saying,

Hey, this is a joke, but I kind of want it. And I think Amazon saw those and took a shot at making it a real product.

I bought one for toilet paper and put it in the cabinet where I keep spare rolls.

You take the last roll out and you press the button. It actually kind of worked.

Crystal Pepsi, New Coke, Orange Juice and Tooth-flavored Lays potato chips. And they even bought Crystal Pepsi back again a few years ago. The first bottle,

I loved. The second bottle, days later, I did not. I've never gotten tired of a soda so quickly

before. Not entirely relevant, but I liked the trend where everybody wanted the smallest cell phone possible.

For 20 years, cell phones got smaller and smaller, often being the main selling point of the phone.

Then all of a sudden, you could watch videos on your phone, and almost overnight the trend reversed to larger is better.

My friend, who studies medicine, had to, had to install Second Life about two years ago

for a class meeting. I don't get why they couldn't have used Skype, but okay. As a CS student,

I wondered what the frick Second Life was doing on all of the lab PCs? I thought it was some

kind of joke until people with PhD started talking about how great of a collaboration tool it was.

It wasn't.

McDonald's Pizza. While the issue here was time, the pizzas were actually a huge hit. The issue was

how long it took them to cook relative to everything else.

One person in a family orders a pizza, and everyone else has done eating before the pizza was

finished.

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