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Ike
5/26/2006, 03:38 PM
http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,125772,pg,8,00.asp#


Number 1, as if there was ever any doubt, AOL.

What would you add to the list?
booomer
5/26/2006, 03:45 PM
I would have said WebTV, but I see that it is on the list of (dis)honorable mention.
crawfish
5/26/2006, 03:46 PM
They might be underrating Windows Me.
yermom
5/26/2006, 03:46 PM
AOL wasn't always that bad... before PPP took off it was pretty cool

the Zip drive wasn't nearly as bad as the Jazz drive, but if the LS120 had come a little earlier, Zip would have never taken off

Comet Cursor and Bonzi Buddy should be higher
Flagstaffsooner
5/26/2006, 03:46 PM
aol, Here, here. Arguing with that guy in India for 45 minutes to cancel that crap.
crawfish
5/26/2006, 03:47 PM
I would have said WebTV, but I see that it is on the list of (dis)honorable mention.

My last job at Gateway was to lead a team designing a competitor to WebTV. The first time I've felt doomed on a project the second I heard about it.
Mjcpr
5/26/2006, 03:48 PM
My last job at Gateway was to lead a team designing a competitor to WebTV. The first time I've felt doomed on a project the second I heard about it.

The fact that you were the team leader should've been the first clue.
crawfish
5/26/2006, 03:52 PM
The fact that you were the team leader should've been the first clue.

Hmmm...Looking back on it, I seem to have bought down Tandy, AST and Gateway...

I should take bids from companies to work for their competitor. I'd make a fortune! :D
12
5/26/2006, 04:02 PM
Where would eukaryotic cells be without the endoplasmic reticulum?

THAT'S RIGHT! Maybe the whole organelle structure was flawed to begin with. I mean, why all the Prokaryotic discrimination?

That's just cockytalk.
TUSooner
5/26/2006, 04:06 PM
Finally, proof that it pays to be behind the times: I never owned any of that crappy stuff!
Now if i can just find the keys to my Ford Pinto, I'll go home.
Ike
5/26/2006, 04:14 PM
Finally, proof that it pays to be behind the times: I never owned any of that crappy stuff!
Now if i can just find the keys to my Ford Pinto, I'll go home.


I couldn't agree with you more. My policy on any new technology that I've ever thought about purchasing is to wait until it becomes a stable product at a decent price.
OCUDad
5/26/2006, 04:18 PM
So are you putting your collection of 8-track tapes up for sale?
colleyvillesooner
5/26/2006, 04:21 PM
Where would eukaryotic cells be without the endoplasmic reticulum?

THAT'S RIGHT! Maybe the whole organelle structure was flawed to begin with. I mean, why all the Prokaryotic discrimination?

That's just cockytalk.

uhh, :confused:

Egg thread?
Ike
5/26/2006, 04:21 PM
So are you putting your collection of 8-track tapes up for sale?


since I'm not quite old enough to remember 8-tracks, I don't have any to sell.

I did have a car with an 8 track player in high school. I used it as a sandwich holder.

However, I have a wonderful collection of dubbed cassettes that I wouldn't mind selling off....
Flagstaffsooner
5/26/2006, 04:26 PM
8" floppies
http://accordionguy.blogware.com/Photos/2005/12/eight_inch_floppy_drive.jpg

Error on every track.
Mjcpr
5/26/2006, 04:27 PM
8" floppies

Luckily you can upconvert them to 13" hardies with little to no effort.
Flagstaffsooner
5/26/2006, 04:30 PM
Luckily you can upconvert them to 13" hardies with little to no effort.I remember those too. A whole 10MB.
SicEmBaylor
5/26/2006, 04:47 PM
I've owned several of those at one time or another including AOL, the Timex watch thing, and I had a Packard Bell with a version of "Bob."
SCOUT
5/26/2006, 05:01 PM
The very first thing I thought off when I read the title was #20 on their list. The infamous cuecat.
http://ace.dse.nl/images/barcode-cuecat.jpg
OUinFLA
5/26/2006, 05:57 PM
http://www.teamdroid.com/img-2/woomba.JPG
yermom
5/26/2006, 06:07 PM
dude, the Woomba would be awesome :D
GottaHavePride
5/26/2006, 07:25 PM
What does it do, cruise around robotically cleaning the inside of a chick's hoo-hah?


Real Player should be 1A on that list.
hurricane'bone
5/26/2006, 07:27 PM
<sigh>
The College of Business Administration at TU still uses Realplayer.
tbl
5/26/2006, 08:05 PM
Nevermind. I am the sofa king.
SoonerInKCMO
5/26/2006, 08:14 PM
Heh.

From the Apple Pippin write-up: Underpowered, overpriced, and underutilized--that pretty much describes everything that came out of Apple in the mid-90s.
birddog
5/26/2006, 08:29 PM
i can't quite grasp why iSMELL didn't succeed with all the pron sites.:eek:
tbl
5/26/2006, 08:47 PM
So how many on the list are we guilty of having? Other than some of the obvious ones (Real).

AOL - I only used this at my Mother-in-laws house b/c they don't have the internet and my local ISP didn't have business there. I did it twise, but fortunately was never billed.

Windows ME - Horrible. One of the reasons I upgraded to my current pc.

Cuecat - They were free in Radio Shack. Matter of fact, I just found it the other day and threw it away.

Free PC's - My second PC was an HP I got through the MSN deal. It SUCKED being locked into that for so long, b/c DSL prices were affordable for about a year before I got out of my contract, so I was stuck with dial up.
tbl
5/26/2006, 08:48 PM
i can't quite grasp why iSMELL didn't succeed with all the pron sites.:eek:
Then they would have had to rename the cuecat.
SoonerInKCMO
5/26/2006, 08:50 PM
The only one of those I had was the Cuecat and that's only because it came free with some magazine I subscribed to. Threw it away without bothering to even open it up.