10 Technologies MIA

Fantasy Football writes "CNet lists ten technologies they miss, which includes Napster, the originial Palm Pilot, good keyboards, and more. From the article: 'Technology evolves. Good technologies and products usually survive; poor ones usually go extinct. But not all of the technologies and tech products that have swirled down the drain of the tech gene pool deserved their fate. Here are some big, and some small, ideas that we thought we'd have with us forever, but that unfortunately have gone the way of the dodo.'"

RIP

[Anonymous Coward]

Microsoft BOB [toastytech.com]
*Sniff*

Again?

[Alphanos]

Wow, it sounds like CNet must have pretty poor editorial standards to post another article with an identical subject so soon after their last one.

Re:Keyboard

[Anonymous Coward]

Uh, that's what it says in the article. THANKS FOR THE TIP

Re:Again?

[datafr0g]

Reminds me of another popular news site...

:)

Re:Keyboard

[seanadams.com]

Uh, that's what it says in the article.

Sorry, I'm new here. Are we supposed to read it?

they missed one...

[nilbog]

I liked punch cards... I mean, they had the added benefit that if your drive broke, you could actually SEE the data...

Re:For those who don't want to RTFA, the top 10:

[Quadraginta]

Hoo yah! I'm still using the same phone I bought in 1985 from Western Electric. This was not long after the break-up and they were still making 'em like they were going to lease 'em out to you and didn't want to have to come out and do repairs more often then every 25 years. It's built like a tank and has survived dozens of 6 foot dives to the kitchen floor. I'll probably be leaving it in my will to the grandkids.

Got the old-fashioned actual real bell on it, too, none of these namby-pamby tweedle-eedle-eep electronic imitations...harumph...

Got to go take my medication now....

Re:now before anyone gets started

[maxpublic]

Kozmo could only work in an arcology setting, and only then if the service charge were added in some fashion, e.g., as part of the rent. Although I can see this as being a very big incentive to move into an arcology, having everything from groceries to movie rentals delivered right to your door. The young forward-thinking geek could move into a much larger and more socially acceptable version of his parents basement while at the same time claiming that he's part of the 'wave of the future', rather than just being afraid of sunlight and face-to-face contact with other human beings.

Max

Re:I miss word processors...

[davesag]

Speaking of paper, there's another technology I'll miss, especially in the bathroom, unless they get something better.

You mean no-one has explained the 3 shells to you?

Re:Space travel - no kidding

[QuantumG]

Look, Seaquest DSV told us everything we needed to know about the oceans OK? Train a dolphin to speak english and all they ever talk about is fish. Build cities at the bottom of the sea and all you get are people complaining that the slightest crack in their domes will kill them and it's really really cold. Not to mention the dorky kids who are so geeky they even make me cringe.

I miss this one soooo badly.....

[Guru Goo]

The handshake noise of dial-up modems.

Re:Keyboard

[Fastball]

Kinda like the robotic arm and processor that Cyberdyne Systems were working on in T2, huh? You know what this means don't you?

I'm gonna have to get a Harley, some leather duds, and a tough pair of shades and blow up the pckeyboard.com offices. I HATE THOSE KEYBOARDS! THEY MUST BE STOPPED! The IBM M-series keyboard can't be reasoned with. It can't be bartered with. And it won't stop until my eardrums are dead. TA-TING!

A couple years working in a university computer lab surrounded by those things almost broke my will to live, but there was a co-worker who taught me how to survive it.

His name was Conner. John Conner.

Re:Space travel - no kidding

[ozmanjusri]

Undersea oceans and ocean floors.

Where I come from, we keep our oceans alongside our seas. None of this fancy layers of ocean and sea stacked up like a pile of pancakes. That's just ostentatious, that is.

You're forgetting about the WARMTH!!!!!!!

[madaxe42]

You see when you're listening to a digital CD the sound comes out all like _|-|_|-|_|-|_ and it sounds terrible, but if you're listening to an analogue LP the sound is all like v^v^v^u^v^U^wooooOOOooo000ooo. So basically the sound quality is smoother and easier from an LP, and it's got all those extra harmonics and sounds, which come free! I mean, you don't get any pops and crackles on CD, and those give the music all their character. The beatles sound sterile and dead without the pops and crackles. I think we need to invest some serious research $$$ in a portable LP player, that you can use like an iPod, I mean, an iPod has what, 40Gb of storage, that's about 4000 minutes... So if you had some kind of barrel, with 40 LPs in it, and a player, and some gyroscopes, you could have that great L:P quality wherever you run. And you'll get fitter faster.

But, anyway, back to my point. For things to sound good, you need an LP, some really thick cables, a gold plated power supply, some of those special bricks which go on top of cables, and a whole bunch of tetrodes & pentodes. Also, once, I saw the beatles in concert, they sucked - they were nothing like they are on an LP - I mean, between the lot of them they couldn't make a single crackle or pop, and they didn't skip once!!!! Where's the warmth?!?!?! Remember, it's w000oo000OOO000oooo))oo which is great not 101010101010101010111 all those ones sound terrible.

Re:I miss this one soooo badly.....

[dzfoo]

Overrated. Take it from one who just heard it a few minutes ago upon waking up and booting to check e-mail.

    -dZ.

So you would described as...

[Anonymous Coward]

not a shareholder then I take it.

Re:My take on the list

[Yonder Way]

There's no such thing as a "Zero Emission Vehicle".

Wrong [vikingship.org].

Re:RIP

[Anonymous Coward]

We bought Bob off eBay as a joke one time and installed it on a co-worker's laptop. It actually installed on XP! Good times.

Re:now before anyone gets started

[R2.0]

I remember hearing one of those "audio diaries" on NPR by someone who worked at Kozmo. She had just graduated college with some arts degree, and her job was bicycle delivery in. She was paid over $30k/year and made, on average, 2 deliveries a day, and spent the rest of the time sitting in the warehouse chatting with the other messengers.

When the company collapsed, she despaired of ever finding a job as good as that one, and decided to go to grad school - also in whatever major she had in undergrad (and couldn't find a job with).

Never in my life have I so wished to have the power to disobey the laws of physics, just in order to be able to reach through the radio and slap that stupid bitch silly. She should have been doing backflips, rejoicing that the whole scheme lasted so long, instead of moaning about how unfair life was.

(Didnt' help that I was stuck in Beltway traffic in summer with no A/C when listening.)

Re:I miss word processors...

[maxwell demon]

Yes, they told me I have to use those shells, but I just can't find the right command. I already tried "rm shit" and "clear", but nothing helped.
I also don't understand why you have to have three shells open for such a simple task.

(note to moderators: yes, I did get the Demolition Man reference!)

Re:You're forgetting about the WARMTH!!!!!!!

[Frank T. Lofaro Jr.]

In Korea, LPs are for old people! :)

Re:For those who don't want to RTFA, the top 10:

[Anonymous Coward]

Why not "VAGINAED" space exploration? Why do you have to be so phallocentric? It's 2005, for crying out loud.