Dearly Departed — Companies and Products That Didn't Make It 462
Esther Schindler writes "Some products just didn't deserve to die. But they did, because the companies made bad business decisions. Dearly Departed, revisits several favorites — from minicomputers to software utilities — and mourns the best and brightest that died an untimely death. What companies or products would you add? Which of them deserved to go?"
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but i thought that all non-tech staff were useless (Score:5, Funny)
and yet, here you come, now telling me that marketing, sales, and management are somehow 'important' and should be payed 'attention to'?
hogwash. we all know that the perfect corporation would make products that we give away for free, have no management, HR, marketing, sales, or customer service staff, and uhm. yeah. we could all live off our wives or in our parents basement.
i for one, will never abandon the True Software view of reality.
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19 different pages?! Forget it. Here's mine (Score:4, Funny)
Philadelphia Phillies
Curling in the US
Proper grammar any more
Frosty Paws for dogs
Fried food as a food group
Dvorak as a writer
the Pet Rock
any Stehpen King movie adaption
Babylon 5's 5th season
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You mean that these companies are all still surviving in a bunker or warehouse somewhere? Send my love to WordPerfect 14, wherever she is!
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Born: 1841
Died: 2007 (purchased by Microsoft)
Cause of Death: After Taco's death, his 6 year-old nephew took over the site. Most of the articles were about farts and dodgeball. Popularity went through the roof, but the kid forgot to renew the domain. Microsoft bought it and turned it into a site where people could post tributes to Windows Genuine Advantage.
Founder: Taco Bell
Most well-known product(s): Ascii art
Why we miss them: Because Digg was just bought by the Microsofties
Lasting image/quote: "Repost"
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Re:Netscape deserved to die - bad management (Score:3, Funny)
Well, since the $DIETY is involved, hopefully they managed to trim some of the fat from the code.
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Re:Netscape? (Score:3, Funny)
Ah the days of manually editing the FAT. The days of writing down a chain of blocks for a file before marking those blocks as bad in order to hide data... Now *that* was cool.
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Re:DEC did their best to fail (Score:5, Funny)
But DEC was simply irresistible!
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Where have you been hiding? We're already there. Mistyped a url lately? Found a result in google that's sold the domain? And what about this guy [milliondol...mepage.com]?
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Re:DEC did their best to fail (Score:3, Funny)
Now wonder they went bust, I mean, he could sing alright, but being a rock star just gives only so little preparation for leading a high-tech company. I am glad that trend got stopped soon enough!
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Re:Obvious one: Acorn Computers (Score:1, Funny)
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No, bin-laden's brother would have to be src-laden.
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They were called Schindlers Lifts
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[ ducks and runs ]