Slashdot Mirror
The 25 Worst Tech Products of All Time
Khammurabi writes "PC World compiled a list of the 25 worst tech products of all time. From the article: 'At PC World, we spend most of our time talking about products that make your life easier or your work more productive. But it's the lousy ones that linger in our memory long after their shrinkwrap has shriveled, and that make tech editors cry out, "What have I done to deserve this?"' Number one on the list? AOL."
Good list... where's X10?
And, if you include Windows ME, where's Windows 3.1? Actually, it might not be a bad idea to have an honorable mention "collection" entry and include all of the horrible Windows versions.... (95, CE, ME, NT)
Windows ME
I have something in common with Stephen Hawking...
You're just saying that because I signed up with AOL under you, and you got 10 free hours.
The Apple laptop that boasted about its internal wirless card but was made of titanium and so there was no signal?
And it made cool clicking sounds after extended usage...
Have you ever been to a turkish prison?
Comment removed based on user account deletion
Soon MS bashing will be 3rd or 4th post on every thread...then where will Slashdot be?
Comment removed based on user account deletion
I was tired of the old amber screen too, but CGA was just not what I thought of when I thought of a "color monitor"
I mean look at this crap.
I grew up playing King's Quest and think he was just sunburned, or embarrased all the time.
I judt got a nre Kinesis keybiartf so please excusr ant egregiou typos.
I would say that the (seemingly) years of hype and vapor leading up to the release of such a so-so product is what clinched it's spot.
Kind of like your first sexual experience...oh, sorry, this is slashdot...well, let me just say - don't set your expectations too high.
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
I use AOL. It's great! I also own a Packard Bell PC computer running Windows ME with 64MB RAM. I'm l337 as well and oh...I work for Radio Shack.
+1 Flamebait... I know.
Pff, that's not nearly as silly as the converse. I once had a phone with a standard grid keypad that used pulse dialing. So you could dial much more quickly than with a rotary phone, and be rewarded with sitting and listening to clicking for fifteen seconds while it translated the number into pulses.
I guess it was that phone that taught me how to dial by hand with the cradle switch, so it did have some redeeming value. But it didn't make it any less silly.
Yeah, but it was sooo cool to look at the bones in your feet right through your shoes! And when you wiggled your toes, you could see them move on the green screen. I used to go into the shoe store all the time just to use the fluoroscope. And the extra toes I grew kept me out of Viet Nam!
Clippy! I'd love to take a blow torch to that S.O.B
EGOTIST, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.
Holy crap! I just tried it -- and it works! You rock!
I hereby propose a sister law to Godwin's Law which shall heretoforth be referred to as Quinn's Law stating that as a slashdot discussion grows longer, the probability of a Microsoft bashing approaches one.
Wow. They must have a HUGE basement.
Q:How many libertarians does it take to stop a Panzer division? A:None. Obviously market forces will take care of it.