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Never forget that Mike Seaver's best friend was nicknamed "Boner."
1978: “No end in sight to 30-year cooling trend” -NYT
1989: “Global warming and rising sea levels will wipe entire nations off the map by 2000” –U.N.
1999: “The Himalayan glaciers will be gone in ten years” -IPCC
2005: “Manhattan to be under water by 2015” –ABC News
The issue with climate change is that the day the climate completely stops changing, then and only then, are we in big trouble.
Facebook died off quick after everyone was allowed on and it stopped being for college kids.
HD never really gained a foothold against blu-ray.
Everything else on here other that Spore, which was actually a huge disappointment and really was overrated, I don't know well enough and can't comment on so I'm guessing it's spot on.
They are not talking about HD-DVD, it is about HD as in 1080p for screens - which is old news already, and Ultra HD (4k) did became the standard, for TVs at least. So if anything they are not wrong, but rather entirely correct on that front.
They are not wrong about nr 10, 9, 8, 4, 2. But completely off the mark on nr7, 5, 3. One could argue about nr1 the Iphone, they are not saying that "smartphone" as a concept is garbage, just that One particular smartphone was so overhyped that there was Nothing that could be released (at the time) that would have lived up to the hype.