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-one 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-one years ago)

ILX.

not really though.

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

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

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

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

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

solitaire

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

Oh no, Solitaire NEVER loses its appeal.

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

Those sheep that used to crawl over the screen.

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

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

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

kate OTM

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

the magnifying glass on windows

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

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

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

SETI@home

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

haha Mr Noodles sooooo right

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

The In-tar-web.

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

flash animation (more content, people!!)

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

five years pass...

The sheet. Seconded (only 5 years late)

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

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