Eight Biggest Tech Flops Ever

Posted by michael on Thursday January 1, 2004 @04:15AM from the much-competition dept.

cuppm writes "Yahoo! News has an article on the The Eight Biggest Tech Flops Ever. 'What distinguishes a simply bad product from the truly awful? Sometimes it's a dreadful user interface. Other times it's a product that successfully addresses a particularly daunting problem - yet one shared by relatively few people. And often competitive or financial pressure forces new products to market before they're ready - full of bugs and horribly unusable. Still other times, the products arrive too early. Eventually they become a success, but often after the founding company has been ruined.'"

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Re:Also missing ... by Just-A-Buck · 2004-01-01 05:50 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Somehow "telnet" and "wilderness" go well together.
You know, in the urban areas they are using ssh nowadays ;)

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Re:UH NO by dave1g · 2004-01-01 08:39 · Score: 0, Offtopic

No one needed to market oil or gasoline, there was an overwhelming demand, and no comparable substitutes even 100 years later.
Re:UH NO by Yakko · 2004-01-01 14:24 · Score: 0, Offtopic

And the grand pisser is, these oil guys decide to just raise the price of gas by $0.12 one day... and $0.12 three days later... for no reason other than we're in the middle of the country.

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