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harrall 4 hours ago

Remember when crypto was hot and everything had crypto.

Remember the Internet was first hot and everything was iThis or Active That. iPhone still has i.

Remember… well not, me, I wasn’t alive… when radiation was cool and Radioactive was in.

Everyone always wants to be cool.

etempleton 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

My favorite was block chain. A company I used to work for that was not a tech company, suddenly going on about the block chain. I saw former, non technical colleagues that were still there write long authoritative LinkedIn posts about the advantages of the block chain and it was incredibly cringey because I am not sure what they thought the block chain was, but I am confident they didn’t understand it at all.

Izkata 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Before the iPhone was the iPod, and before the iPod I had an iRiver mp3 player. There was certainly a trend and only Apple's product survived that one.

bananaflag 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Because the trend started with the iMac.

SoftTalker 2 hours ago | parent [-]

i<Something>.com was very common during the first dot-com boom. "e" prefixes were also common but I think "i" was more prevalent.