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What’s the worst piece of technology you’ve ever owned? (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by zachimusprime44@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 37 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Does anyone remember MSN WebTV?

It technically worked.

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 6 points 4 months ago

Imagine your grandmother ordering one of these from QVC and calling her grandchild to come over and show her how to work it...

[–] jelloeater85@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

I remember that thing... My grandpa had one. It was ... Interesting.

[–] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 3 points 4 months ago

I had this one and the upgraded one since we were too poor to buy a real PC. It worked decent for web browsing at the time and I spent a lot of time in IRC chat rooms. I think (may have been later on a real PC) I even started doing Geocities/Tripod/Angelfire pages on this and learning basic HTML.