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== Technology ==
* [[wikipedia:Microsoft BOB|Microsoft BOB]] was a laughable excuse for a "beginner" operating system. The concept was that the system was a "house", divided into several cartoony "rooms", where to open a program you should have to press the corresponding appliance. It had a user/password system, but if you failed three attempts the system gave access to you anyway. The problems with this approach to security [[Too Dumb to Live|should be obvious]]. It was disliked by users who understandably [[Viewers are Morons|didn't want to be babied]], and it was quickly killed by Windows 95, which proved to be more usable and less childish. Still, its legacy lives on in [[Stop Helping Me!|Clippy the Office Assistant]] and the controversial font Comic Sans, both of them originally created for this abomination.
* ''[[Microsoft Windows]] Millennium Edition'', arguably the worst product ever released by [[Microsoft]] (and [[Idiot Programming|given the amount of crap they have released]], that's not an easy feat). It was a bug-ridden mess that was notoriously insecure, unstable, and incompatible with a good amount of software and hardware, and leaked memory like the Niagara Falls leak water. It was planned as a "transitional system" between the 9X line and the NT line, but it was so awfully programmed it did not do what transitional systems are intended to do, read call the appropriate type of libraries to make programs run smoothly (ironically, Windows 98, the operative system it was replacing, was actually better at it). No wonder they ended up pushing the release of Windows XP (based on the more stable NT) less than 1 year after ME's release - even at its buggiest XP was more reliable than
* '''Non-Fungible Tokens''' (NFTs)
** On most NFT sharing sites, you could easily use the “save image” function in any web browser to get the image for free, and in case they disabled that using Javascript, you could use your OS’s screenshot program (like Windows 10’s Snipping Tool and Mac OS’s Grab) to the same effect.
** You didn’t actually own the image or its usage rights. You just owned a hyperlink to the image, so once the domain expired, anyone could buy the domain and redirect it to whatever they wanted, including Rickrolls and shock sites.
** It used Ethereum, one of the worst cryptocurrencies for the environment. Ethereum mining produces more CO2 than the country of Ireland. This ignited much criticism on Twitter, with certain users making blocklists of anyone who had even mentioned NFTs in a positive light.
** Not to mention that the majority of NFT “art” could be considered Horrible itself, and that’s not even getting into problems with art theft, including Twitter bots like “Tokenized Tweets” that existed solely to allow people’s art to be stolen and made into an NFT.
** While the first wave of the NFT market quickly crashed within weeks, several game and entertainment companies have jumped into the NFT fad since, having promised releases of exclusive material like digital postcards and decorative DLCs with this method, inadvertently keeping the market alive due to speculation on what the companies will release. Only time will say if the thing will evolve and catch on, or if it will crash again and just leave a Horrible legacy.
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