on What happened to the Mir space station?0 votes

it stayed in orbit for 15 years, way longer than planned, and hosted a bunch of joint US-Russia missions in the 90s. Russia deliberately deorbited it in 2001, burning it up over the Pacific.

on What happened to drive-in movie theaters?0 votes

the digital projector upgrade requirement around 2013 (when studios stopped distributing film reels) is what actually killed off a huge chunk of the remaining ones.