The 25 Worst Tech Products of All Time

[Anonymous]

PC World article

It’s a good read. Some of these everyone should be aware of.

[Lamuness]

so who still uses AOL today?

[RonXE]

uhh… I don’t. I use Turner/Warner Brothers Cable.

I am really surprising that Iomega was listed in worst 25 tech. I got two Zip Disk Drives 100 mb and 250 mb (both in pre-1998). Then both were not working for few years later. I did not know what wrong with both. I might bring both zip disk drivers to the computer store, later.

EDIT: I loved zip disks than floppy disks because floppy disks can not fit my works like avatars, homepages, tags, etc. Now, I will use flash discs for my works.

[ 05-27-2006, 11:46 PM: Message edited by: RonXE ]

[CPOK]

While I never suffered from the US AOL, I reamber trying to set up AOL (AUST) for a friend of dad’s (he wouldn’t use anything else). Now that was a royal pain in the bloody arse.

[Dark_Lord_Zenigame]

Originally posted by Lamuness - BBS Admin:
so who still uses AOL today?

…me. ._.

[Anonymous]

I’ve used an Iomega ZIP Drive in the past, many years back. Didn’t have any problems with it, so I, too, was surprised at seeing it in the listing.

[Baldo]

Originally posted by Benoit:
[b]8. Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 (2001)
Full of features, easy to use, and a virtual engraved invitation to hackers and other digital delinquents, Internet Explorer 6.x might be the least secure software on the planet. How insecure? In June 2004, the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT) took the unusual step of urging PC users to use a browser–any browser–other than IE. Their reason: IE users who visited the wrong Web site could end up infected with the Scob or Download.Ject keylogger, which could be used to steal their passwords and other personal information. Microsoft patched that hole, and the next one, and the one after that, and so on, ad infinitum.

To be fair, its ubiquity paints a big red target on it–less popular apps don’t draw nearly as much fire from hackers and the like. But here’s hoping that Internet Explorer 7 springs fewer leaks than its predecessor.[/b]

Yeah, I do know that IE is crap (Benoit, you’re absolutely right), but I prefer Cheap Convenience for now, awaiting to see the next version of this cursed-but-too-widespread-for-eradication browser.
Besides, I’m merely an occasional Netsurfer, and I visit only a few safe (I hope!) sites, Japanese or not.

[Anonymous]

Any other browser is just as convenient to use. Besides, by using the crappy browser, you’re promoting non-standards.

It takes almost no effort to switch. Just try it.

[Jinnai]

Never went with zip disks, especally after i heard about them dying. I held out for my rewritiable CD-RIM drive (at the time…i got that and a rewritable DVD-ROM dual layer drive as well)…

I can’t believe though they had a mirco-sized computer on the market. That’s more of like something you show at a press conferance to say “look what we can do!” not sell to people. But it still wasn’t as good as the SoftRAM thing.

[RonXE]

Many college students used zip disks, and removable hard disk drives (jaz, and others) because their projects required to hold more than one floppy disk (1.5 mb).

Now, they switched from them to USB Flash Disk.