It’s a federal holiday today so you can look forward to a whole lot of soft news: predictions, explanations, funny videos that serve no real purpose and, my favorite, lists. And golly gee, here’s a list of the top 25 tech flops, as compiled by InfoWorld.
Highlights—or should I say lowlightslol—include virtual reality, Gnu Hurd, the Apple Newton, the paperless office and Vista.
The number one flop is sort of a letdown, so make of this list what you will.
Tech’s all-time top 25 flops [InfoWorld/Yahoo!]
What, no MS Bob (which I hold wasn’t a failure so much as a concept that would have worked five years later with better technology)?
IPv6???? Calling it a solution to a problem nobody has yet and making that sound like a BAD thing? That was sheer brilliance.