Worst technology ever
PC Magazine has released a list of top 25 worst pieces of technology ever. Most of them cover PC related topics but not all. Some of the ones that stand out to me are:
1. AOL as the single worst piece of technology ever. Yeah that one is easy to see.
2. Realnetworks. Real was bought out by AOL and ended up being nothing more then over glorified spyware. Yeah it sucks.
4. Windows ME. Yes I used it. Yes it sucked.
23. Free PC's. Luckily I stopped working at Circuit City just before the "free" PC craze hit the market. Places like Circuit City and Best Buy sold computers for "free" if you signed up for and ISP contract for a year or 18 months and paid 21 dollars per month. Total rip off because the computers sucked ass.
On the Honorable Mention List of worst technology was the Circuit City DIVX system. I did work as Circuit City when the DIVX was being introduced and it was a total flop. I remember going into meetings and the sales managers pushing the technology hardcore. It was a stupid idea and bombed. Good ridance if you ask me.
Check out the list for your self and see which one of these technologies you personally encountered; you might be surprised.
posted by Gordon @ 11:37 PM
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2 Comments:
You beat me to the punch on this one. I was going to post that article as my second installment of "When Technology Goes Bad". Oh well, back to the drawing board.
The more and more I think about it, AOL really is evil. I had the misfortune of using it recently at my mother-in-law's house. I was amazed to find that simply using the program results in more pop-ups than your average "free screensavers" site. And people are paying a nice chunk of change for this!!! That's just wrong. I'm going to try and convince her to switch to DSL.
Bad AOL! No pudding for you!
The problem is with all its advertising people think AOL IS the internet and wont change. Sigh.
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