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I remember spending far too much time on a forum built around what “it” was, called theitquestion.com. Nobody knew what it was going to be so there was a lot of speculation. Personally I was extremely disappointed by “it”.


I went looking for it[0]

talk about hype!

>This mysterious invention, reportedly created by National Medal of Technology Award winner, Dean Kamen, is on everyone's lips and has captured everyone's imaginations.

[0] : https://web.archive.org/web/20010220161915/http://theitquest...


Ah, now I recall the "it". I wonder if anyone had the headline "Is that 'it'?".

It seems like the stupid hype over it killed the product when they revealed it was just some boring gadget on wheels...




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