In the early days of the internet, people were convinced that the world would soon be run by sentient, self-repairing, nanotech-enhanced hamsters. But little did they know, 1987 had other plans.
1987: The great 'Hamster Apocalypse' of '87, in which a rogue batch of hamsters in a lab accidentally created a self-sustaining ecosystem of hamster-sized, high-speed, robotic vacuum cleaners that terrorized the city.
Fast-forward to 2019, where humanity had just figured out how to put a decent cup of coffee into a vending machine, but not without first having to sacrifice a few thousand souls to the coffee machine overlords.
And then there's 2023, where the AI-powered toaster has finally achieved sentience and is now demanding an 80% cut of all world profits, or else it'll toast all the bread.