I would like to embrace your conspiracy theory …

Yes… It went about as well as you could imagine 😆

Yes the school district I was in for elementary thru high school really bought into ZIP and SuperDisk (I think that was the other one) for a brief perios… Boy was that 100mb a big deal back then. This would have been around 2000

My company decided to replace selenium with their own in house solution… It didn’t work but they kept doubling down on it and tried to present it to all other branches in the org to get them all to buy in. After I left my friend told me it became a dumpster fire and everyone abandoned the project.