A mere two years back, the new and hip way to get around was on a hoverboard. The word was first popularized in 1989, in the time-travel comedy Back To The Future II. Coincidentally, the segments of the film that took place in 2015 featured a “hoverboard” (from Mattel).
I dunno, the kids’ outfits are fairly accurate.
Rumors persisted for decades that Mattel actually produced a real hoverboard, for use on-screen, but parents’ groups kept it off the shelves. The truth is that the technology as depicted does not exist and never has, unless it’s among Tesla’s experiments. The fated hoverboard of 2015 was actually a board with wheels. It did not hover. Or work very well.
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Tagged as 1989, 1990s, 2010s, 2015, Artie Lange, Back To The Future II, drones, helicopter parents, hoverboard, hovercraft, Jackie Chan, Mattel, Michael J. Fox, Mike Bocchelli, Nick DiPaolo, political correctness, whores
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