Popular software from the 80s/90s that eventually failed?

[IcePickFreak]

Don't know how popular it was, but I remember this one from the very early 90s...

Apparently though they were still making a version of it up til 2009...

:awe:

 

[SunnyD]

FuseTalk... :sneaky:

 

[Saint Nick]

Don't know how popular it was, but I remember this one from the very early 90s...

Apparently though they were still making a version of it up til 2009...

:awe:

What in the F is that?

 

[SagaLore]

AOL
Webshots
Weatherbug
Bonzai Buddy
Hotbar
Netscape
Real Player
Winamp

 

[Fritzo]

IBM OS/2 Warp

Actually, that product was about 10 years ahead of its time. It was a great OS, but home users didn't have the horsepower to run it, and there was a lack of software support for it.

How about this big steamer:

 

[Fritzo]

Don't know how popular it was, but I remember this one from the very early 90s...

Apparently though they were still making a version of it up til 2009...

:awe:

Geoworks was from the mid '80s. It was also way ahead of its time. I had it on the Commodore 64. You used the joystick for a mouse

 

[Perknose]

Ami Pro, later bought by Lotus and became Lotus Word Pro, or something like that. In it's heyday, it was THE BEST word processing software. It was truly WYSIWYG when Word tried, but wasn't.

 

[IcePickFreak]

Geoworks was from the mid '80s. It was also way ahead of its time. I had it on the Commodore 64. You used the joystick for a mouse

Yeah pretty sure it didn't come to the "IBM" awe platform til 90/91.

Was just a GUI for DOS. Apparently the "new" version is a licensed OS.

 

[cronos]

Anyone still remember Stacker? The one that would make your hard drive larger somehow (way back then HDs were pretty expensive). I still remember their ads with a fish and then another much larger fish.

Ah Stacker! I definitely remember

 

[SunnyD]

EMM386.exe.

 

[PrinceofWands]

ICQ

Still used pretty frequently. It's the main chat method for most people I know.

 

[Iron Woode]

Helix Nuts & Bolts
Wordstar

 

[Ns1]

Still used pretty frequently. It's the main chat method for most people I know.

who the fuck do you know?

everyone I know is on FB or gChat these days. I think asians are still on MSN.

 

[PrinceofWands]

Winamp really used to kick the llama's ass...

Can't remember the last time I used it.

Still my player of choice.

 

[Saint Nick]

EMM386.exe.

Hah, that little eraser icon... expanded memory OH YEAH
Load high ring a bell anyone? :biggrin::biggrin::biggrin:

 

[PrinceofWands]

who the fuck do you know?

everyone I know is on FB or gChat these days. I think asians are still on MSN.

I said chat, not social networking. Two entirely different things. A lot of us have dropped FB in the last year anyway. Google is slowly replacing ICQ, but we're all still on it. Quite a few on there who don't like/trust google, so I doubt it will ever die completely. Unlike so many modern products it chose to do one simple thing, and do it well.

 

[AznAnarchy99]

The same thing it's always been used for, there are tons of communities that use IRC for communication.

ah mIRC. Hashtags before they were mainstream.

 

[Ns1]

I said chat, not social networking. Two entirely different things. A lot of us have dropped FB in the last year anyway. Google is slowly replacing ICQ, but we're all still on it. Quite a few on there who don't like/trust google, so I doubt it will ever die completely. Unlike so many modern products it chose to do one simple thing, and do it well.

I mean chat, not social networking.

 

[Golgatha]

Wordperfect, Norton Software, Nero Burning Rom, Winamp, Real Player, and Lotus 123.

 

[foghorn67]

Ami Pro, later bought by Lotus and became Lotus Word Pro, or something like that. In it's heyday, it was THE BEST word processing software. It was truly WYSIWYG when Word tried, but wasn't.

I got that for free somehow. I think it was bundled something. It was the best for that era.

 

[BurnItDwn]

Appleworks was the shit back on the Apple 2e.

Nowadays everything is MS Office or Openoffice.org....

 

[Fritzo]

Still my player of choice.

Yeah, the Winamp app for Android kicks two llamas and a crippled goat's ass.

 

[Perknose]

PC Tools from Central Point. I think they were bought up by Symantec and then deep sixed because they were much, much better than Norton Utilities.

 

[Ns1]

PC Tools from Central Point. I think they were bought up by Symantec and then deep sixed because they were much, much better than Norton Utilities.

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...5319&CatId=309

 

[DominionSeraph]

Most people are familiar with winzip instead of winrar.

Winrar can zip. Winzip can't rar.