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Gallery of the Lamest Technology Mascots Ever

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the some-surprises dept.

Wired has a gallery of their Lamest Technology Mascots which features some trollish links including Tux and a certain adorable devil. Also featured is the old Java mascot Duke which I always liked, and of course Clippy who these days pretty much exists only in cheesy Top X lists.

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  1. Recursive by tttonyyy · · Score: 5, Funny

    I would love to add this gallery to my "Gallery of Lamest Galleries Ever", but it stack overflowed when someone submitted it to itself.

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  2. Steve "The Dancing Bear" Ballmer by Neferkara · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why isn't he on the list?

    1. Re:Steve "The Dancing Bear" Ballmer by Opportunist · · Score: 5, Funny

      He's no mascot, he's just the poster child.

      Also, the butterfly MS used to have as their mascot for MSN isn't lame. It was one of the few honest moves from MS to use a bug as the icon for one of their services.

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    2. Re:Steve "The Dancing Bear" Ballmer by TheRaven64 · · Score: 3, Funny

      I loved the way (in the UK), the MSN adverts used to use 'Homeward Bound' as the music. The line 'every word comes back to me, in shades of mediocrity, like emptiness in harmony' really summed up Microsoft well for me.

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  3. Yes he does rock... back and forth... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...and on his hands and knees

  4. Here's one by cordsie · · Score: 5, Funny

    I always thought this guy was one of the scarier technology mascots out there.

    Wait, you mean that's not a guy in a rubber suit?

  5. I just realized some extent of my own prejudice by erroneus · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm not a BSD user because in my mind, the connection to BSoD (Blue Screen of Death) is too close. The devil icon doesn't help the death image even if the devil isn't blue. Is that a horrible reason not to use BSD or what?

  6. Ya gotta love by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 4, Funny
    The Wikipedia mascot entry, which is really two mascot candidates, includes this memorable phrase:

    As for a final choice, it's been slow death by consensus for several years.
    Was there ever a better description of Wikipedia?
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  7. Re:GNU Goat? by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 4, Funny

    Whoooosh

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  8. Re:Tux rocks by gad_zuki! · · Score: 4, Funny

    Tux is actually a very positive symbol. Its just a happy looking penguin.

    Funny how all these lists mention clippy, but never the gnu goat-thing. It even has a smart-ass smirk on its face like it just finished 'flaming a noob' in a newsgroup.

  9. Where are they now: the Pets.com sock puppet by coolGuyZak · · Score: 5, Funny

    *sniff*... I loved the Pets.com mascot. How could you not like this face??

    Unfortunately, what Wikipedia doesn't cover is why pets.com ultimately failed. The sock puppet, like many celebrities, turned to hard narcotics after he lost his high of the .com era. This, combined with a heavy spat with Triumph the Wonder Dog, pulled the plug on his career. The puppet got so down and out that he almost sold his Timex collar, just for one last hit (either of the narcotics, or on Triumph's head). Luckily, he discovered the Hakan and Associates rehab center, whom made a vain attempt to rescue his career. Not much detail is provided about his 12-step sponsor, 1-800-BAR-NONE or their brief collaboration on car commercials. The Pets.com mascot dropped off of the public radar soon after those commercials.

    I heard from a friend that he's studying Buddhism under the Dalai Lama in Tibet in Exile. Apparently, His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso is training the Pets.com puppet to become a Lama who will wander the hills of Tibet looking for the yang srid. It is suggested that, due to resemblance of the Pets.com mascot to a childs toy, the 15th Lama may recognize the roaming monk as a good friend. Time will tell on that one though.

  10. Re:How Duke was invented.... by Farmer+Tim · · Score: 2, Funny

    Looking at that mascot and wondering "WTF is it?", I'm inclined to think the pain killers came first. Nitrous oxide inspired it, and lignocaine made it seem like a good idea.

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  11. Clippy is still around by Sir+Holo · · Score: 2, Funny

    CmdrTaco said: ...and of course Clippy who these days pretty much exists only in cheesy Top X lists.

    Sadly, I still see Clippy every day on the monitor of a couple of the secretaries in my workplace.

  12. Re:Tux rocks by stuntpope · · Score: 4, Funny

    That was at least the second post here referring to it as a goat or goat-like thing. I don't get it. If Linux were called PENGUIN, would people be calling Tux "that tern-albatross-birdlike thing"?

  13. Re:Missing the wider picture... by LighterShadeOfBlack · · Score: 3, Funny

    Were you denied a puppy as a child? No I got one. It kept asking me if I wanted to search for files.
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  14. Re:Tux rocks by uhlume · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well, he did implicitly include himself among the not-all-that-well-educated...

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