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What was your first hoverboard ride like? #VersionHistory
The Verge· 2025-10-06 14:00
my first ever hoverboard experience. I first I will never forget this moment. I got it on Amazon, took it out of the box and I was in Oakland uh in my apartment and I was like, "Okay, my my living room is tiny." It was in like an 800 foot apartment.I was like, "I don't have any room to ride this thing. I'm going to take it down to the street." First mistake. I was like very early in the hoverboard world at this point. And so I was like, "I didn't know how any of this worked." So I take it down to the sidewa ...
Hoverboards that don’t actually hover… could they have had a better name? #VersionHistory
The Verge· 2025-10-05 15:01
Why the hell are these things called hoverboards. They don't hover. Yeah, fair point taken.But they are hoverboards and they they they just are hoverboards. There was never any other good name to call them. You know, I I where that comes from, I don't even really remember.Again, this there was this sort of cultural thing happening, like I said, at the same time where hoverboards were in our mind in a way that they hadn't been in years prior. And so, you know, I think it just it became a good shortorthhand f ...
Remember when everyone had a hoverboard in 2015, until they started exploding? #VersionHistory
The Verge· 2025-10-05 14:01
What do hoverboards start doing. They start exploding, which is where Andy comes into the story. Do you do you remember any of the like early versions of this story. I remember being very like, you know, panic panicked like this is a problem.Uh because yes, they started exploding. They were catching on fire. There was some deaths I think associated with it.Like it was it was bad. Yeah. And it's it's useful to remember that these things are huge.Yeah. which is like it's not like if your even your phone batte ...