Try adding something to the discussion. I'm not sure what you mean by "these technologies". I'm also not sure what you mean by "took off." The fact that we stil

Try adding something to the discussion. I'm not sure what you mean by "these technologies". I'm also not sure what you mean by "took off." The fact that we still talk about Smalltalk and Lisp despite their apparent lack of ascendency, and yet don't recall other languages from those eras must at least say that certain aspects of them "took hold" to the extent we still talk about them. Does explaining why they didn't "take off" add an interesting insight or corollary about whatever happened?