The Museum of Retro Technology is a really cool little site. It’s one of those neat little areas of the Net that shows you the world that was, or actually the world as people hoped it might be.
The site features a lot of interesting inventions that never really caught on. It’s neat for Social Studies classes to see first hand how the world might have turned out, and how people thought the world should develop.
For Science classes this site presents a neat opportunity to analyze the scientific mistakes of past years. Why didn’t certain technology work? Would it have been better if it had actually caught on? After all, the technology that gets adopted isn’t always the most technologically advanced choice.