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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. Tux rocks by jshriverWVU · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No seriously Tux rocks :) *tossing some herring*

    1. Re:Tux rocks by DrXym · · Score: 5, Insightful

      The original Tux sucks because it looks fat, bored, lazy and apathetic and / or immensely stupid. It isn't even very eye catching. It really is not a good mascot. There are better drawings of Tux such as the Tux crystal version. The original should be dumped for one which is more attractive, mischievous and interesting.

    2. Re:Tux rocks by lokiomega · · Score: 3, Insightful

      No, I'm pretty sure most people don't have a clue what a gnu is.

  2. i can take the kharma hit but... by TinBromide · · Score: 4, Insightful

    After using linux on my desktop and getting minimal support for my non big guy video card (kyroII) and a few other issues that 2 months of my best searching, poking, installing, uninstalling, untarring, posting, and breaking couldn't fix a few years back, I came to realize WHY linux's mascot was a penguin -

    And this is sure to get me modded down for flaming, trolling, etc, but its a joke...

    Either installing and configuring linux was like an expedition to a cold, stark, barren wasteland, or using it was like living there...

    One little aside, my little adventure with linux 5-6 years ago taught me that in order to use a non mainstream OS, you needed to use mainstream hardware... Odd, eh?

    Or at least code drivers yourself.

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  3. Missing the wider picture... by LighterShadeOfBlack · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...which is that all computing mascots suck. The whole concept sucks. Unless the target audience of your software is young children, cutesy mascots are just stupid and annoying. A decent logo is useful for branding and recognition of your software, that's fine. But some stupid character to try and create some bizzare link in people's heads between your office software/OS/web browser and some "loveable" creature strikes me as incredibly pointless and just a little bit desperate.

    "Sure, on the outside we're a multi-national billion-dollar corporation but, as this green koala clearly shows, on the inside we live in a playful world of whimsy with chocolate hills and marshmallow clouds."
    Give me a break

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