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Which makes me wonder… what just happened?

We already had cool toys in the 90s and early 00s, but they were forgotten. As if they never existed in the first place.

And mid-late 2010s, similar tech started to (re)-appear and were called “revolutionary” and “new” and “first” and “will change the world”. But nothing came out of those 2010 versions, subpar if compared to the 90s-00s versions.

I guess, when something is too early for its time, we are very quick in forgetting they ever existed, collective amnesia?

Or, was the world led to believe those cool toys “can't possibly exist that time”? Well… they did exist. And this is why, for some (or many) of us, we are not as excited whenever we see someone claim “new”, “first”, “revolutionary”, or “will change the world”, because we've seen it, we've played it, and we drooled, I mean, dreamed of a future.

So, yeah, kids, as our grandparents have told our generation, “there's nothing new under the sun”. Don't tell us we didn't have what you have today. :P

PS
Don't forget Google Glass, it was too early for its time, but it looks like it's going to experience what 90s VR arcade games, VRML worlds, and gamervertising, experienced… forgotten.