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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. A list that overlooks the Pets.com sock puppet by elrous0 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ...cannot be taken seriously. Come on, this thing was the unofficial symbol of the entire dot-com boom era, which subsequently made him the unofficial symbol of the dot-com bust. Not only that, but he was LAME. A *sock puppet* as a company mascot?!?!? Unless the "technology" you're promoting is a time machine to go back to 1970 and bring back Shari Lewis, you really should be considering a better mascot.

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  2. GNU Goat? by Himring · · Score: 2, Interesting

    No GNU Goat? I'm most certain this will get modding troll or w/e, but I love the free movement and always thought that goat was ill-conceived....

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  3. They Missed At Least One by rhartness · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Where's the flying toasters? I remember the first time I saw them. I was 12 and I still thought it was lame.

  4. Re:Clarus? Nooooo... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Clarus is great and still looks good today. The rest suck but Clarus IMO belongs the "best" list and not the worst.

  5. You may enjoy this list of mascots by ribuck · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You may enjoy the list of mascots at Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mascots

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  6. Duke = Ouija Planchette by Neon+Spiral+Injector · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I always thought Duke resembled an Ouija planchette.

  7. You know, I could like the Mozilla logo... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    If the way T. rex is positioned wasn't so freakishishly wrong. I suppose the human-like posture makes sense for the "Godzilla"-like theme, but it's archaic. It's early 20th century. Nobody thinks T. rex walked like that with its tail dragging on the ground and a humaniform body.

  8. v/Bear Lame?!? by Sounder40 · · Score: 3, Interesting
    The v/Bear is lame?!? I think not! The v/Bear was the creation of VMSG, a fantastic software house in the 80's and 90's that produced excellent products for the various flavors of the IBM VM operating system, (also known as VM/SP, VM/XA, VM/ESA and now zVM). The v/Bear sort of became the unofficial symbol of the VM community. VM system programmers hung out on the VMSHARE bulletin board and shared tips long before newsgroups became popular. We were a real community.

    Hey, this was a great operating system for its day, and you should all know something about it. Take a look at Melinda Varian's excellent paper (PDF warning) on the history of the great operating system. Twenty years ago, I was running VM systems that ran 20 to 40 mainframe guest operating systems, long before VMware and Xen. VM still has the best implementation of Unix pipes I've ever seen.

    I still miss VM and the v/Bear, though I have one on my car's keyfob...

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