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    What's the worst technology ever invented?

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    • momurdaM
      momurda
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      Hitting 0 on 99.9% of these systems gets you to a person.

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      • RojoLocoR
        RojoLoco @momurda
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        @momurda said in What's the worst technology ever invented?:

        Hitting 0 on 99.9% of these systems gets you to a person.

        I was just about to say that I just press 0, *, and # over and over until I get a person. And sometimes that person catches an earful of my rage, but I don't feel bad because they chose to answer phones for a living.

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        • RojoLocoR
          RojoLoco
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          My vote for worst tech ever is for the machine that cuts out those insipid vinyl stickers with the stick figure families. I'd love to go upside that idiot's head.

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          • momurdaM
            momurda
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            Dealing with this today
            CAPTCHA
            Select the following 9 pictures with street signs, cars, or roads in them. Dont mess up or you have to start over again with another image, then another.

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            • DashrenderD
              Dashrender
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              Nah worst text ever = fax.

              Mic drop.

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              • guyinpvG
                guyinpv
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                I don't know that faxing is the worst.

                I'd say email is to faxing what radio is to ham.

                Some day when the world burns and our enemies have destroyed the web, there will be nerds faxing each other over POTS.

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                • PenguinWranglerP
                  PenguinWrangler @guyinpv
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                  @guyinpv said in What's the worst technology ever invented?:

                  I don't know that faxing is the worst.

                  I'd say email is to faxing what radio is to ham.

                  Some day when the world burns and our enemies have destroyed the web, there will be nerds faxing each other over POTS.

                  I don't know if faxing is the worse either, but it is still one of the worse. Honestly though shouldn't printers be on the list, at the least the crappy ones?

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                  • IRJI
                    IRJ
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                    Small office printers!!!!

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                    • RomoR
                      Romo @IRJ
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                      @irj said in What's the worst technology ever invented?:

                      Small office printers!!!!

                      Can't upvote your comment enough, really hate having to deal with them.

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                      • EddieJenningsE
                        EddieJennings
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                        From today's experience, I'd have to say the Cisco ASA 5505 😛

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                        • nadnerBN
                          nadnerB
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                          Printers that require programming.

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                          • MurtlapM
                            Murtlap
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                            pagers

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                              marcinozga
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                              Floppy drives.

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                              • IRJI
                                IRJ @marcinozga
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                                @marcinozga said in What's the worst technology ever invented?:

                                Floppy drives.

                                Floppy disks were great when there was no other removable storage that a normal person could afford.

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                                • IRJI
                                  IRJ @Romo
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                                  @romo said in What's the worst technology ever invented?:

                                  @irj said in What's the worst technology ever invented?:

                                  Small office printers!!!!

                                  Can't upvote your comment enough, really hate having to deal with them.

                                  An old comic, but definitely a good one

                                  http://theoatmeal.com/comics/printers

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                                  • dafyreD
                                    dafyre @IRJ
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                                    @irj said in What's the worst technology ever invented?:

                                    @romo said in What's the worst technology ever invented?:

                                    @irj said in What's the worst technology ever invented?:

                                    Small office printers!!!!

                                    Can't upvote your comment enough, really hate having to deal with them.

                                    An old comic, but definitely a good one

                                    http://theoatmeal.com/comics/printers

                                    How have I never seen that one before. That is great!

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                                    • IRJI
                                      IRJ @dafyre
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                                      @dafyre said in What's the worst technology ever invented?:

                                      @irj said in What's the worst technology ever invented?:

                                      @romo said in What's the worst technology ever invented?:

                                      @irj said in What's the worst technology ever invented?:

                                      Small office printers!!!!

                                      Can't upvote your comment enough, really hate having to deal with them.

                                      An old comic, but definitely a good one

                                      http://theoatmeal.com/comics/printers

                                      How have I never seen that one before. That is great!

                                      yeah it's probably my favorite oatmeal comic.

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                                      • PenguinWranglerP
                                        PenguinWrangler @marcinozga
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                                        @marcinozga said in What's the worst technology ever invented?:

                                        Floppy drives.

                                        I work at a law firm. So depending on how far a case dates back to we still deal with old tech. We have a Sony 3.5" floppy drive that connects via USB. We have even thought about trying to find 5.25" floppy to USB.

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                                        • AdamFA
                                          AdamF @Dashrender
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                                          @dashrender said in What's the worst technology ever invented?:

                                          Nah worst text ever = fax.

                                          Mic drop.

                                          upvote X 1,000

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                                          • PenguinWranglerP
                                            PenguinWrangler @IRJ
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                                            @irj said in What's the worst technology ever invented?:

                                            @romo said in What's the worst technology ever invented?:

                                            @irj said in What's the worst technology ever invented?:

                                            Small office printers!!!!

                                            Can't upvote your comment enough, really hate having to deal with them.

                                            An old comic, but definitely a good one

                                            http://theoatmeal.com/comics/printers

                                            Maybe I am just showing my age but I remember hooking up my 9 pin dot matrix printer to my Epson 8088 DOS-based computer and running a word processor called (I believe) First Choice. That was an adventure. That comic doesn't even begin to touch on that.

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