Top 25 WORST tech products ever.

[Blue-Hawk]

My friend showed me this site he found athis house the other day, so I had him send it to me to post here.

Some of these might bring back memories.

http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,125772,pg,8,00.asp

The Complete List of Losers-
1- America Online (1989-2006)
2- RealNetworks RealPlayer (1999)
3- Syncronys SoftRAM (1995)
4- Microsoft Windows Millennium (2000)
5- Sony BMG Music CDs (2005)
6- Disney The Lion King CD-ROM (1994)
7- Microsoft Bob (1995)
8- Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 (2001)
9- Pressplay and Musicnet (2002)
10- dBASE IV (1988)
11- Priceline Groceries and Gas (2000)
12- PointCast (1996)
13- IBM PCjr. (1984)
14- Gateway 2000 10th Anniversary PC (1995)
15- Iomega Zip Drive (1998)
16- Comet Cursor (1997)
17- Apple Macintosh Portable (1989)
18- IBM Deskstar 75GXP (2000)
19- OQO Model 1 (2004)
20- CueCat (2000)
21- Eyetop Wearable DVD Player (2004)
22- Apple Pippin @World (1996)
23- Free PCs (1999)
24- DigiScents iSmell (2001)
25- Sharp RD3D Notebook (2004)




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Ketchup edit: Made url work.

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[VioletSkye]

I totally LOVED my CueCat, I still have it laying around somewhere http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_smile.gif

BTW I should mention that it was easy to hack to make it do other things besides sending personal info to companies lol.

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[rena-ko]

i liked my zip drive too. first thing i got from ebay and it worked like a charm until USB sticks got popular.

[Polly]

Zip Drives and discs were a saving (oh god that's clever) grace in college. Still got mine hanging around and I know quite a few people who still use them.



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[Logical2u]

15- Iomega Zip Drive (1998)

DX....

I own one of those!

Oh well, I knew it sucked then, too! Lol!

(ZOMG BIG FLOPPY! CDS ARE DEAD!) <--- The whole statement you were making with that drive.

-Logical2u

[Charmander02]

On 2006-05-30 12:01, Blue-Hawk wrote:

6- Disney The Lion King CD-ROM (1994)



I love that movie. http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_wacko.gif

[REJ-]

I hate that movie, and most of the other disney ones

[Blitzkommando]

Wait a second... Betamax and 8tracks didn't make the list but Zip disks did? http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_disapprove.gif at PCWorld.

[Skuda]

On 2006-05-30 12:01, Blue-Hawk wrote:
6- Disney The Lion King CD-ROM (1994)


haha, I think one of my teachers worked on that.

[DizzyDi]

What was so bad about the Lion King CD-ROM?
And what was so bad about the movie REJ-, its a classic, like aladin.

[Skett]

1- America Online (1989-2006)


Certainly no objections here. I bet they rate pretty low on the "worse customer service" list too.

[Balthor]

No AIM Triton?

[PJ]

I think Musicmatch Jukebox shouldave taken the place of Internet Explorer 6 http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_wacko.gif

[Dhylec]

Hm.. I have used some 5 of those on the list. They weren't the worst back then. In fact, some were quite good.

[Skorpius]

N-Gage?

[Hrigg]

On 2006-05-30 20:09, Dhylec wrote:
Hm.. I have used some 5 of those on the list. They weren't the worst back then. In fact, some were quite good.



That's about the same with me. http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_eek.gif

[darthsaber9x9]

Interesting read. Never had any trouble with ZIP disks myself, they were a lifesaver back in the day.

[EtrnlFenix]

On 2006-05-30 16:42, Balthor wrote:
No AIM Triton?



I think that AIM Triton should be on there, as i have used it and believe it to suck

[InfinityXXX]

On 2006-05-30 16:26, Skett wrote:


1- America Online (1989-2006)


Certainly no objections here. I bet they rate pretty low on the "worse customer service" list too.



I agree with both of you. When I had AOL(back when it was the "thing" to get) I HATED it. I only liked it for AIM but after finding out you can download it w/o owning AOL I quickly left. I also hated there customer service too. They had nasty attitudes.

Good List.

[Jive18]

1 question - where's gizmondo?

Maybe this list is too retro for a product that came out last year.