In the world of hardware: S-100 was going to be replaced by VMEbus, then the PC came along, then the ISA bus was going to be replaced by the PS/2 bus, but it was too much lock-in, so we got EISA instead. Laptops had expansion ports, using the PCMCIA interface, we called it People Can't Memorize, Computer Industry Acronyms Bubble memory was supposed to make rotating disk obsolete. WORM (write once, read many) drives w…
ATM was a dead issue before the first spec was released. Everybody knew except AT&T management.
Not arguing against its inclusion on the list, just wondering if there should be another list of "incredibly stupid ideas taken to full deployment"