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

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IcePickFreak

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Don't know how popular it was, but I remember this one from the very early 90s...
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Apparently though they were still making a version of it up til 2009...
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:awe:
 

SagaLore

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AOL
Webshots
Weatherbug
Bonzai Buddy
Hotbar
Netscape
Real Player
Winamp
 

Fritzo

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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:

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Fritzo

Lifer
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Don't know how popular it was, but I remember this one from the very early 90s...
ensemble_12.gif


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

: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

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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

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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

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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 :)
 
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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.
 

Ns1

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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

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

foghorn67

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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

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Appleworks was the shit back on the Apple 2e.

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

Perknose

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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.