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TIME Magazine has released its list of "50 Worst Inventions" and somehow FarmVille has made the list of one of the fifty! The list of fifty worst inventions is compiled of "the world's bright ...
Time named Bob and Clippy as two of "The 50 Worst Inventions", calling the former an "expensive and overly cutesy" piece of software that was "designed around Clippy". [8] PC World ranked the product No. 7 on its list of "The 25 Worst Tech Products of All Time" [7] and Complex No. 27 on its list of "The 50 Worst Fails In Tech History". [3]
Microsoft Bob was listed seventh in PC World magazine's list of the 25 worst tech products of all time [16] and as the number-one worst product of the decade by CNET.com. [17] It was also listed among the 50 worst inventions in Time magazine, which called Bob "overly cutesy" and an "operating system designed around Clippy."
Someone asked “What inventions are worse than 30 years ago?” and netizens shared their examples. The post 40 Once Great Inventions That Are Becoming Worse And Worse first appeared on Bored Panda.
In December 2009, the popular gadget blog Gizmodo voted the CueCat the #1 worst invention of the decade of the "2000s". In 2010, Time magazine included it on a list of "The 50 worst Inventions", [ 27 ] adding that people didn't accept "the idea of reading their magazines next to a wired cat-shaped scanner".
CEO Marc Benioff has repeatedly likened Microsoft’s Copilot to Clippy, its doomed Office assistant from the 1990s, once listed as one of Time’s 50 worst inventions.
Time magazine included Clippit in a 2010 article listing the fifty worst inventions. [ 30 ] Although helpful to brand-new users, and although introduced at a time when relatively few people had extensive experience with computers, the Office Assistant feature was criticized for interrupting users and not providing advice that was fully adapted ...
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