That Computer Gimmick Is So Old Hat, Asshat!

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What gimmick or gizmo on yr computer which amused you, or wowed you & yr mates a year or three back now seems really boring and passé?

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 09:29 (twenty-two years ago)

"Hello Smithers. You are quite good at turning me on."
http://www.duffzone.co.uk/grabpics/thumbs/burns_naked_thumb.gif

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 09:35 (twenty-two years ago)

ILX.

not really though.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 10:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Downloading music. Sorry, the thrill wore off really quickly.

― Citizen Kate (kate), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 10:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Kate i've found that Chapterhouse wax cylinder you were hankering for

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 10:16 (twenty-two years ago)

solitaire

― ken c, Wednesday, 19 November 2003 11:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh no, Solitaire NEVER loses its appeal.

― Citizen Kate (kate), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 11:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Those sheep that used to crawl over the screen.

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 11:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh god, the pet cat screensaver that used to claw up your spreadsheets. When I was Sys Admin, I had to ban them cause they irritated me so much after a few days.

― Citizen Kate (kate), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 11:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Flash games involvingfamouspeoplethatyouhavetoshootwithatarget. Good lord they are NOT FUNNY PEOPLE !!

― Fuzzy (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 15:49 (twenty-two years ago)

kate OTM

― the surface noise (electricsound), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 23:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Novelty alert sounds are pretty bad.

There used to be a program for Macs called "CrazyLights" or something and its only function was to make the little LED lights on your keyboard blink on and off really fast in a random pattern. I've never seen anything better than that.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 23:15 (twenty-two years ago)

the magnifying glass on windows

― raphael diligent (Cozen), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 23:15 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.joedog.org/images/wacky/wackyd.gif

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 23:34 (twenty-two years ago)

SETI@home

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 23:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Those "wacky" and "zany" joke programs for windoze 3.1 wot made your screen melt or the buttons move out of the way of the mouse. Ha ha ha, my sides.

Also, any goddamn flash ani or joke exe file sent in an email. STOP IT, FUCKFACES!

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 23:43 (twenty-two years ago)

haha Mr Noodles sooooo right

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 20 November 2003 00:48 (twenty-two years ago)

The In-tar-web.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Thursday, 20 November 2003 01:04 (twenty-two years ago)

black background web pages - but that's more like five or six years ago.

― Kim (Kim), Thursday, 20 November 2003 03:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Tiled image background web pages, even more so. "ooh look, my website looks as if it is floating on water!". Ugh.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 20 November 2003 03:35 (twenty-two years ago)

flash animation (more content, people!!)

― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 20 November 2003 03:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Rotating desktops- my ancient powerbook had a shareware control panel or something that would change the desktop every hour or so, and I thought it was really neat. Now it kind of annoys me- I haven't turned on the OS X version in a while. Too depressing to be at work, and see a photo come up & think "gee I saw that one this morning" & be reminded how many hours you've been working.

― lyra (lyra), Thursday, 20 November 2003 05:01 (twenty-two years ago)

five years pass...

The sheet. Seconded (only 5 years late)

― AndyTheScot, Sunday, 30 November 2008 15:30 (seventeen years ago)

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