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

[AznAnarchy99]

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

Its amazing but until it can access Google Music its not much use for me

 

[Zeze]

Huh Winamp is dead?

I still use it. What are you supposed to use nowadays?

 

[Ns1]

Huh Winamp is dead?

I still use it. What are you supposed to use nowadays?

WMP/iTunes/VLC

 

[Jeffg010]

I can't believe no one said Mosaic (web browser). It started the World Wide Web for browsing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic_(web_browser)

 

[Wreckem]

Word Perfect still exists...

http://apps.corel.com/lp/wpo/

And still heavily used by older professionals. IE: dinosaurs, especially in the legal industry.

 

[deanx0r]

Flash

 

[IcePickFreak]

I can't believe no one said Mosaic (web browser). It started the World Wide Web for browsing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic_(web_browser)

Totally forgot about that one. Reminded me about the old Lynx browser. I remember logging into a local BBS that had Lynx on it so you could look at the whole 10 websites that existed (in ANSI format).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser)

 

[Crusty]

Totally forgot about that one. Reminded me about the old Lynx browser. I remember logging into a local BBS that had Lynx on it so you could look at the whole 10 websites that existed (in ANSI format).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser)

I still use Lynx.

 

[blankslate]

Netscape navigator?

I'm going with this it was the #1 browser very early on.

 

[Zeze]

WMP/iTunes/VLC

WMP is good?

iTunes is way too bloated.

VLC is great for video, but decodes music very well?

My Winamp has this clean minimalist skin. I like it.

 

[TurtleCrusher]

Isn't Firefox an updated version of Netscape? I swear I read that somewhere...

 

[blankslate]

Huh Winamp is dead?

I still use it. What are you supposed to use nowadays?

WMP/iTunes/VLC

Winamp isn't dead it's still very good and you can choose the original style or a new more "modern" interface. It still keeps up on the updates.

I like that I can play streams from online talk radio stations and mp3s all in the same playlist.

VLC is my goto media player for video files.

 

[blankslate]

Isn't Firefox an updated version of Netscape? I swear I read that somewhere...

Firefox branched of from Netscape if I understand correctly and there was a netscape 9 released in 2007 or 2008 well after Firefox started getting famous amongst the more tech minded.

 

[slackerinabox]

I can't believe no one said Mosaic (web browser). It started the World Wide Web for browsing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic_(web_browser)

I remember oohing and awwing when I first saw Mosaic - felt so futuristic and ahead of its time.

 

[Joseph F]

You guys are making me feel young.

 

[Fritzo]

I can't believe no one said Mosaic (web browser). It started the World Wide Web for browsing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic_(web_browser)

Isn't that what Internet Explorer was based on?

 

[WT]

memory managers before win95 like QEMM , Memmaker
boot managers like Boot Commander

+1 for this one. If you were a gamer (real men game in DOS, not this BS running it from within Windows shit) you had QEMM installed, squeezing out as much conventional memory as it could.

 

[slackerinabox]

Isn't that what Internet Explorer was based on?

IE and Netscape, actually. IE until version 7 or 8

 

[PrinceofWands]

I mean chat, not social networking.

Got confused with having FB in the list. FB may be a lot of things, but a chat client was never one of them. Native American smoke signals were more featured and reliable than FB chat has ever been.

 

[PrinceofWands]

WMP/iTunes/VLC

WMP is just more microsoft ass. It's deleted from any system I touch.

Itunes is more Apple ass. It's deleted from any system I touch.

VLC is a great video client, but as an audio client sucks ass.

 

[Ns1]

WMP is just more microsoft ass. It's deleted from any system I touch.
Itunes is more Apple ass. It's deleted from any system I touch.

and yet they both work just fine.


I used to do the same shit, format my computer and then re-dl winamp as one of my mandatory install programs. Then I got lazy and stopped giving a shit, haven't looked back since.

not giving a shit FTW.

 

[Brainonska511]

WMP is good?

iTunes is way too bloated.

VLC is great for video, but decodes music very well?

My Winamp has this clean minimalist skin. I like it.

I use winamp too. iTunes is bloated, WMP is alright, but both have no native flac support.

 

[Crusty]

Got confused with having FB in the list. FB may be a lot of things, but a chat client was never one of them. Native American smoke signals were more featured and reliable than FB chat has ever been.

FB chat uses the same protocol as Google chat.

 

[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.

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

Symantec killed it when they bought it. I remember, I was pissed. Fourteen years later, they apparently slapped the old name on a low end product.

Yay.

In June 1994 Central Point was acquired by their top competitor Symantec who ultimately discontinued the product line. PC Tools was the main competitor to Norton Utilities, which Symantec had acquired in 1990.

Symantec now uses the PC Tools brand name—acquired from an Australian security vendor in 2008[2]—for low-cost antivirus and antispyware software[3]

 

[mtbiker99]

I can't believe no one said Mosaic (web browser). It started the World Wide Web for browsing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic_%28web_browser%29

Before GUI, I used to use Gopher to access the web.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)

(can't get it to link right, it drops the ')'