Ask HN: What tech were you convinced would take the world by storm but didn't?

Re:Ask HN: What tech were you convinced would take the world... by muzani on Friday November 17, 2017 @05:13AM (#15720703)

I thought the same thing too. It's quite sad that talking to people is usually limited to dating, and dating has become a domain of Tinder.

I remember an era when chat rooms like IRC had thousands of people online at a time. It didn't scale past this, but it was very exciting.

Maybe there is a market for something like a real-time Reddit, but it's a lot harder to pull off because there needed to be many people on at the same time before it could but critical mass.

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Re:Ask HN: What tech were you convinced would take the world... by wrinkl3 on Friday November 17, 2017 @05:34AM (#15720815)

There's definitely a huge demand for less dating-oriented ways to meet people online.

> something like a real-time Reddit

Reddit did that with Robin, their April's Fools Day experiment two years ago. It randomly connected small groups of the participating redditors in chatrooms, and would gradually merge the chatrooms if the majority of the users voted to do so. It was a lot of fun while it lasted, but I don't think anyone managed to successfully replicate it since.

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Re:Ask HN: What tech were you convinced would take the world... by owebmaster on Friday November 17, 2017 @07:27AM (#15721424)

I guess it is because we stay online 24 hours now but in the past connected time was a scarce commodity. I felt bad if whenever I found that I was online but wasn't connected to my IRC channels, losing all the history :(

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Re:Ask HN: What tech were you convinced would take the world... by sah2ed on Friday November 17, 2017 @01:12PM (#15724429)

Real-time Reddit like ChatRoulette ?

https://www.chatroulette.com/

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