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AOL. LOL.
1 posted on 06/09/2006 2:55:59 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
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The link at the TOP of the page works...the individual links do NOT. sorry. rd.


2 posted on 06/09/2006 2:57:16 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat (I am SO glad to no longer be associated with the party of "dependence on government"!)
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Later read...


3 posted on 06/09/2006 2:58:27 PM PDT by DB (©)
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What about 8-track?


4 posted on 06/09/2006 2:58:31 PM PDT by Screamname (I`ll give peace a chance when it doesn`t need one.)
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dBASEIV is still better than MS Access

(Then again I still use DOS to find stuff)

TT
5 posted on 06/09/2006 3:01:00 PM PDT by TexasTransplant (NEMO ME IMPUNE LACESSET)
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LOL I have 4 items on that list, and if I had had more buck$ to spend over the years I probably would have had twice that number.


6 posted on 06/09/2006 3:01:12 PM PDT by Dumpster Baby ("Hope somebody finds me before the rats do .....")
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Welcome to last May.
8 posted on 06/09/2006 3:02:08 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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PDF files should be #1

No matter how fast your connection they still take forever to load and there's always a 50-50 chance they will crash your system.

Even opening a saved one on your computer takes forever as Adobe has to open each individual *.dll & *.ini file one by one.

They are mind bending slow to navigate also.


9 posted on 06/09/2006 3:02:10 PM PDT by qam1 (There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
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Timex-Sinclair ZX-81?


10 posted on 06/09/2006 3:02:41 PM PDT by atomicpossum (Replies must follow approved guidelines or you will be kill-filed without appeal.)
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I think I have CueCat in a drawer somewhere. No, I was not stupid enough to use it!


11 posted on 06/09/2006 3:02:42 PM PDT by Sisku Hanne (Send "Cut-n-Run" Murtha packing. Support Diana Irey for US Congress!)
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AOL does suck. But what is the problem with RealPlayer? I use it and am pretty satisfied with it.


12 posted on 06/09/2006 3:03:35 PM PDT by frankiep (I respect Islamofacists more than the American left - at least they ADMIT that they hate the US.)
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14 posted on 06/09/2006 3:04:55 PM PDT by Revolting cat! ("In the end, nothing explains anything.")
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Netscape made some worse browsers than Internet Explorer 6.
15 posted on 06/09/2006 3:05:00 PM PDT by lormand (We are blessed by the stupidity of our political opponents.)
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I don't dispute that these products are terrible, but the earliest one is 1989? I don't believe that. There has to be terrible tech products from the '60s and '70s that are worthy for the list.


16 posted on 06/09/2006 3:05:27 PM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity ("Sharpei diem - Seize the wrinkled dog.")
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They forgot about the Circuit City/Divx debacle.


18 posted on 06/09/2006 3:05:48 PM PDT by WayneM ( Sneaking in is NOT immigration...............................Cut the KRAP (Kare Rove Amnesty Plan).)
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I liked Pointcast ... but unfortunately the minute it became popular, people started using it at work and blew up their company's bandwidth, and that was all she wrote.


20 posted on 06/09/2006 3:07:58 PM PDT by No.6 (www.fourthfightergroup.com)
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I remember coding some extensive applications in dBaseII. By time III came out, it was starting to decline, and then Oracle came on like gangbusters and it was all over.

It's interesting to see the evolutionary ebbs and flows in the software industry. For example, CP/M was THE operating system in the early days. If your machine couldn't run CP/M, it was junk. Needless to say, THAT died pretty fast.

But what about products like VisiCalc? Or Lotus 1-2-3? Or pds:File? WordPerfect? In their day, they were industry contenders, yet they all dwindled away to oblivion. And I don't think that in every case it's because something better came along. The software biz is just really fickle, I guess.

22 posted on 06/09/2006 3:09:46 PM PDT by IronJack
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How about Wired Magazine?

Wireless headphones--they never work.

Early Sprint Clamshell phones.

Globalstar Satellite Phones.

24 posted on 06/09/2006 3:10:53 PM PDT by Defiant (As the Chief said on F Troop, "Where the Zarqawi?")
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Technical stuff was only invented in 1984?


25 posted on 06/09/2006 3:11:33 PM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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I don't see Air America on this list.


29 posted on 06/09/2006 3:13:21 PM PDT by InvisibleChurch (No.... wire .... hangers!)
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Disney The Lion King CD-ROM (1994)

Good kiddies, take off their clothes!

Whoops, wrong movie (that was Aladdin, I think). Lion King had SEX/SFX spelled in the stars.

34 posted on 06/09/2006 3:15:44 PM PDT by Clemenza (The CFR ate my bilderburgers! Time to call for a trilateral commission to investigate!)
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