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Ugliest Products in Tech History

by Susan Walsh

30446524a.jpgPC World.com has a great article about the ugliest products in tech history. Among them are:

Acoustic Coupler Modems- How many of you are old enough to remember these(or willing to admit it)? These devices are how our 1970’s counterparts got online-although going online back them was a completely different experience-ASCII, BBS’s, USENET…oh yeah, those were the days!

Motorola DynaTAC 8000X- The very first cellphone. Unlike today’s sleek and tiny cellphones, this one was about the size, shape,and weight of a brick-oh and did I mention it cost nearly $4,000?

Windows 1.0- I remember this very fondly. While Vista has an absolutely gorgeous interface, Window’s 1.0 was truly hideous. The file names were in all caps and the graphics rough and blocky, but it was in color and a huge upgrade from the dull, monochrome world of DOS. It’s amazing how far it’s come!

Microsoft Zune- Yes, this relatively recent release has a place on PC World’s list, due to the players cheap looking plastic casing and yucky brown color. Although it was meant to be an “iPod Killer” I don’t think Apple is worried.

To find out what else made the ugliest products list check out PC World.com. Let me know what you think? Are there products you’d add? Remove? I personally would add any of the Nextel cell phones (they are as unstylish as you can get and pretty hefty too!) and the original Macintosh computer-the computer was great, but that square beige box was hideous! Let’s hear what you think!

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