Top Ten Things that Were Once Big but Disappeared
I remember my sister having one.
Wait, there were toys?
Before there were the Love Live and Gundam SEED "fads", Sunrise had the Brave "fad"
Sega Games Co., Ltd., originally short for Service Games and officially styled as SEGA, is a Japanese multinational video game developer and publisher headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, with multiple offices around the world. To true, I would never EVER think of this unless someone mentioned it, even then I would ask what they are talking about
The exception is Sonic
Robert Matthew Van Winkle, known by his stage name, Vanilla Ice, is an American rapper, actor and television host. Vanilla Ice: *rips off the bass line in Under Pressure from Queen and puts it into Ice Ice Baby*
Vanilla Ice: *magically disappears*
Aaron Charles Carter (December 7, 1987 - November 5, 2022) was an American singer. He came to fame as a pop and hip hop singer in the late 1990s, establishing himself as a star among pre-teen and teenage audiences during the early 2000s with his four studio albums.
Jesse McCartney is an American actor, voice actor, singer, and songwriter. McCartney achieved fame in the late 1990s on the daytime drama All My Children as JR Chandler.
They were everywhere (as well as brick phones) from the mid 90s until maybe the mid - late 2000s. Of course, they still make 4G flip phones, but you don't see too many people using them for some reason.
Hannah Montana, also known as Hannah Montana Forever for the fourth and final season, is an American musical comedy series created by Michael Poryes, Rich Correll, and Barry O'Brien which focused on Miley Stewart, a teenager living a double life as an average schoolgirl by day and a famous recording artist Hannah Montana by night. This is already dead
BlackBerry phones were pretty popular in the late 2000s and early 2010s, but I haven't seen any in years after my mom eventually replaced her old BlackBerry Curve with a Nokia phone in 2013 (which she eventually replaced with several other phones until she got a stupid, lame, and ugly iPhone earlier this year). I always remember how cool that physical QWERTY was and whenever I think about old keyboard phones, BlackBerry phones always come to mind.
Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha is a Japanese anime television series directed by Akiyuki Shinbo, with screenplay written by Masaki Tsuzuki, and produced by Seven Arcs.
Atari is a corporate and brand name owned by several entities since its inception in 1972, currently by Atari Interactive, a subsidiary of the French publisher Atari, SA.
Michael Jackson (Michael Joseph Jackson; August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American singer, dancer, and songwriter. He passed away from cardiac arrest caused by a propofol and benzodiazepine overdose on June 25, 2009. He donated (at least) a remarkable 500,000,000 dollars to charity. Michael is also known as The King of Pop (a title given to him by Elizabeth Taylor) or under the initials MJ. Dubbed the King of Pop, he is regarded as one of the most significant cultural figures of the 20th century. ...read more.
Pokémon, abbreviated from the Japanese title of Pocket Monsters and currently advertised in English as Pokémon: The Series, is a Japanese anime television series, which has been adapted for the international television markets. It was first broadcast in Japan on April 1, 1997, in the United States ...read more.
Actually, it's having a pretty huge resurgence in popularity lately
I remember going to Blockbuster once when I was maybe 2 or 3 years old. I got a mini toy guitar with 4 red buttons on it from there.
I'm not sure if they still exist or not, but I remember having a lot of photos taken with those disposable Kodak cameras with the last time I ever saw one being in 2014. After that, I never saw or used one again. I remember how thrilling it would always be to get the photos printed out and have them mailed to my apartment building a few days later.
I'm surprised nobody added this here yet. I was surprised when I saw a payphone yesterday after my 6/2/2022 orthodontist appointment.