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* Chyoo, an adult create-a-story[[note]]Think {{Gamebook|s}} erotic fiction, collectively written.[[/note]] website run by the same folks who run Literotica, has been advertising "Chyoo 3.0" for several years. In fact, their front page has a notice claiming Chyoo 3.0 will be released in a few months... that dates back to 2006. In actuality, the Literotica owners have apparently lost all interest in maintaining Chyoo. Lack of quality content probably has much to do with it. It could also be because these stories are a dime a dozen on Website/WritingDotCom.

* ''[[Music/{{Animusic}} Animusic 3]]'' was announced as a Website/{{Kickstarter}} campaign in 2012. The project reached its goal, and a timeline was laid out for the release of the album in October 2013, which came and went. It was revealed that due to Wayne Lytle's increasing health issues and his partner, Dave Crognale, leaving the team, progress on the album seemed to stop. The last word on the status of ''Animusic 3'' was in 2015. Since then, many {{Fan Sequel}}s have spawned.

Should not be confused with VaporWear, {{Vaporwave}}, or [[Creator/BlizzardEntertainment so]] [[ScheduleSlip on]]. Also, perhaps ironically, no relation to UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}.

* The TropeNamer was Microsoft's UsefulNotes/{{Unix}}-based operating system (OS), [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenix Xenix]]. Although this OS actually existed and came to market, the term was coined by a Microsoft engineer in 1982 because [=AT&T=][[note]]who then owned Unix[[/note]] started selling its own version of the OS called System V and Microsoft lost interest in Xenix, transferring its team to a new joint project with [=IBM=], [=OS/2=][[note]]which itself got the shaft in favor of [[UsefulNotes/MicrosoftWindows Windows NT]][[/note]]. Although Microsoft wound up selling its rights to the Santa Cruz Operation, at first they didn't make it clear what their plans for Xenix were.

* The GNU Hurd operating system kernel. Once meant to replace the kernel of UsefulNotes/{{UNIX}}, it long ago lost that honor to Linux, which it is now championed to replace... someday. Meanwhile, the constellation of open-source software meant to be built around it has been Linux-based for ''decades'' now and will have to be ported ''back'' to its official "home" system if the thing ever sees release. For some perspective, development on the Hurd began in 1984 and the first actual, installable OS based on it came out in 2003; there is yet to be a release of even beta quality. Comparatively, Linux started out in 1991 and had been marked as stable since ''1994''.

* The UsefulNotes/MacOS was infamous for its replacement projects that either got stuck in DevelopmentHell (Taligent and Copland) or never even started (Gershwin). In 1996, while on the verge of bankruptcy, Apple finally gave up and bought [=NeXTSTEP=] to get Steve Jobs back, which eventually became Mac OS X and helped save the company.

* Chyoo, an adult create-a-story[[note]]Think {{Gamebook|s}} erotic fiction, collectively written.[[/note]] website run by the same folks who run Website/{{Literotica}}, has been advertising "Chyoo 3.0" for several years. In fact, their front page has a notice claiming Chyoo 3.0 will be released in a few months... that dates back to 2006. In actuality, the Literotica owners have apparently lost all interest in maintaining Chyoo. Lack of quality content probably has much to do with it. It could also be because these stories are a dime a dozen on Website/WritingDotCom.