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  2. List of commercial failures in computing - Wikipedia

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    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]

  3. FarmVille makes TIME Magazine's Top 50 Worst Inventions List

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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 ...

  4. List of lost inventions - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of lost inventions - technologies whose original capabilities cannot be recreated in the same form anymore. It does not include theoretical inventions. It does not include theoretical inventions.

  5. List of automobiles known for negative reception - Wikipedia

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    [158] In a later piece, Time also named the Aztek one of the 50 worst inventions of all time. [159] The Los Angeles Times named the Aztek the "Worst Car Ever Sold in America". [29] The book Sixty To Zero by Alex Taylor III, which details the fall of General Motors, prominently features an Aztek on the cover.

  6. CueCat - Wikipedia

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    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".

  7. Microsoft Bob - Wikipedia

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    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."

  8. List of obsolete occupations - Wikipedia

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    The end of colonialism and the invention of the electric fan largely put punkah wallahs out of business in the 20th century. [181] Tech: 17: 20: Reeve: A reeve was an official elected annually by the serfs to supervise lands for a feudal lord. [182] [183]: 166–178 H. R. Loyn observed, "he [the reeve] is the earliest English specialist in ...

  9. Timeline of historic inventions - Wikipedia

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    The Lower Paleolithic period lasted over 3 million years, during which there many human-like species evolved including toward the end of this period, Homo sapiens.The original divergence between humans and chimpanzees occurred 13 (), however interbreeding continued until as recently as 4 Ma, with the first species clearly belonging to the human (and not chimpanzee) lineage being ...