The 25 Worst Tech Products of All Time
As per PC World. Numbers 1 and 2? AOL and RealPlayer.
Can't argue with that. http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/artic...72,pg,1,00.asp |
Sony should have been #1. As bad as AOHell is, its not a fricken rootkit.
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Zip drives...I always hated those fucktarded things.
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Ahh, the CueCat, I have firsthand knowledge of those dumbass things as a former Radio$hack employee. Completely and utterly worthless, the company could not literally give them away.
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Realplayer sucks donkey balls.
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I figured this would turn up on that list somewhere.
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ROB was awesome compared to the headache-inducing VirtualBoy.
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I wonder if I still have my parellel port external zip drive around here? Back in the day it seemed like a godsend that something could actually hold 50MB of data and be re-writtable.
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Who needs rewritable when you can write a new one for 1/10 of a penny. |
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Side note: the really cheap Cds are known to not hold up well over time, if you have important data (family pics, etc.) on them, you may want to look into archival quality media, or at least regularly burn new discs. |
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Heh, I find what they said about AOL rather amusing. I didn't buy an internet-capable PC until 2003 and of course, I didn't know any better and I signed up with AOL. It wasn't too long after when I started hearing all the grumbling about AOL being bad, so I switched to Earthlink.
For about a week. The ****ing spam was so bad and I hated using Internet Explorer as well. And trying to get my Earthlink cancelled was like pulling teeth. I have no complaints about AOL. I also don't understand what they said about some of the internet being "walled off". I've never had trouble accessing anything. |
Wow. This could be the worst idea I've ever seen for any product, ever:
http://images.pcworld.com/news/graph...digiscents.jpg 24. DigiScents iSmell (2001) Few products literally stink, but this one did--or at least it would have, had it progressed beyond the prototype stage. In 2001, DigiScents unveiled the iSmell, a shark-fin-shaped gizmo that plugged into your PC's USB port and wafted appropriate scents as you surfed smell-enabled Web sites--say, perfume as you were browsing Chanel.com, or cheese doodles at Frito-Lay.com. But skeptical users turned up their noses at the idea, making the iSmell the ultimate in vaporware. |
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