What did you see at it's early stages that you thought would NEVER get popular?

Twitter. I thought it was dumb, I still think it's dumb. I had an account for a while but all my friends just retweeted the same 2-3 people over and over again all the time. If I wanted to follow Justin Timberlake and Roger Ebert, I'd have fucking followed them. I was annoyed at seeing their tweets repeatedly so I just deleted my account.
— imnotacrazyperson

Minecraft. It was before the game was really a thing. Saw the prototype for a pig on an obscure 3D forum (Wings3D?) which didn't really look like a pig and eventually became the Creeper. I recall commenting on the model something "like try again, it takes more practice." while poking a bit of fun at it. This was before going for low-poly was a thing, and the game wasn't even on the public level. Got into the game during late beta because it looked fun. And then I'm like... That looks familiar... Of course any proof of that happening was gone when dickhead hackers ransacked most BBforums and wiped the archives. It's one thing to prove vulnerabilities, but it's a real asshole move to 404 what some would consider internet history.
— pauljs75

I was one of the first million or so people to watch Gangnam Style. Never could have imaginged it would eventually hit 3 billion views.
— ayyy__1mao

Reddit. When Reddit was still new it faced major competition from Digg, and frankly I didn't expect the Digg exodus which helped make Reddit into the huge site it is now.
— Merfk

Txt messaging/Instant Messanger. My father worked for the telephone company and he would come home with prototypes every once in a while. He had one program called "Host and Remote" where you could connect computers over the phone lines and then talk to each other in what looked like DOS. He hooked it up to my computer and my cousins, but then it took forever to figure out how to talk to each other, and then writing out the messages and sending to each other took forever. I remember finally writing to my cousin, "This is stupid. Why don't you just call me on the phone?" Then we talked on the phone for a while talking about how we never thought txt messaging would take off.
— vampedvixen

I remember when amazon just sold books. Didn't think it'd take off, since libraries provide books for free.
— bonster85

Not my story, but a friend’s: he was working at the desk at Hamilton Grange, Alexander Hamilton’s house in upper Manhattan, when Lin-Manuel Miranda came in. This was pre-Hamilton but my friend recognized him from In the Heights and so started talking to him. Lin-Manuel told him he was there researching for a hip hop musical about Alexander Hamilton. My friend told him (in his usual thick Brooklyn accent) that “ahhh nobody will ever go see that.” How wrong he was.
— noalarmsand

I was invited to Microsoft in 2003 to beta test a product they were developing and it ended up being a large multi-touch display the size of a coffee table. I had never used anything like it before. They had a couple of icons on it that could move around and then pulled up Windows on it and we could double tap and open folders, etc. It was super cool. At the end of the demo, they asked us to vote on their name choice, the "Surface Table" I believe. I couldn't tell anyone about it, but I constantly waited to see it be released. Then a few years later, Apple unveiled the iPhone with it's multi-touch display and the world lost it's collective shit, and I just kept thinking about how Microsoft had the technology for years to do something like it first but missed their chance.
— Sigurlion

The Barenaked Ladies... they seemed like they were just making shit up, and later I found out they were.
— billbapapa

Pay to win games. Thought people would come to their senses.
— RandytheRubiksCube

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