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

[dwell]

Before there was ATOT there was...

 

[OVerLoRDI]

mIRC, or any other IRC client.

False, irc is still used quite often. Sure not as much as before, but still very alive.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Bonsai buddy.

People actually willingly installed that and thought it was cute. :awe:

Corel Office is another. It's still somewhat used, but I'm sure if you look hard enough, windows 95 is also still used. It's still dead.

Anyone remember Grolier? It was kinda like Encarta. Man I need to find that now. :biggrin:

 

[TXHokie]

cc:Mail - still gives me nightmares but a lot of company had it. Then Exchange/Outlook whup its butt thankfully.

 

[Aikouka]

mIRC, or any other IRC client.

mIRC is open right now on my PC.

 

[brianmanahan]

sybase

 

[postmortemIA]

QBasic

 

[PrinceofWands]

and yet they both work just fine.

That seems to be subjective/experiential. Like people insisting Vista worked 'just fine'.

 

[PrinceofWands]

FB chat uses the same protocol as Google chat.

Yet it works about as well as a one-legged epileptic Tasmanian devil with an inner ear infection and a crack addiction in a fine porcelain gallery.

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

Programs like realplayer didn't die due to lack of innovation. They died because they decided it would be great if it took over your whole computer as a second skin.

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

Any BBS software
Gopher protocol
PC Anywhere
Pointcast

No one has pointed out the old pay per click things like AllAdvantage?

 

[cKGunslinger]

ugh, my company uses lotus notes. i hate it.

Ditto. Actually recently switched *to* Lotus.

 

[lxskllr]

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.

Foobar2000 is the best audio player, bar none. I wish it was libre so I could use it on GNU/Linux, but DeaDBeeF works well enough for that.

 

[Ns1]

Programs like realplayer didn't die due to lack of innovation. They died because they decided it would be great if it took over your whole computer as a second skin.

lol real, srsly the plague of the fucking internet.

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

Foobar2000 is the best audio player, bar none. I wish it was libre so I could use it on GNU/Linux, but DeaDBeeF works well enough for that.

This. Foobar is amazing especially once he added a random option (shuffle sucks for really big playlists if you ever pick out songs once in a while)

 

[Anubis]

Programs like realplayer didn't die due to lack of innovation. They died because they decided it would be great if it took over your whole computer as a second skin.

this!
also BUFFERING!


and winamp is far from dead, Ive used it basically every day for the past 13 or so years.

 

[Ns1]

this!
also BUFFERING!


and winamp is far from dead, Ive used it basically every day for the past 13 or so years.

I would be eager to know how many winamp users came online during the past 8 years or so. It's easy (for me) to see why old timers would be using winamp, but I just don't see some kid out of HS/college today to know/need winamp.

 

[Hankysmoo]

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.

This

 

[Red Squirrel]

Winamp is dead? Isin't that pretty much the standard app for listening to music with a playlist?

 

[wty]

who the fuck do you know?

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

Asians use QQ(just like ICQ,but more powerful and it's free),not so many people use MSN.

 

[wty]

Winamp is dead? Isin't that pretty much the standard app for listening to music with a playlist?

I think many use foobar2000 for listening to music .

 

[shortylickens]

Even before Real Player was loaded with spyware it was still a crappy program.

 

[wty]

QBasic

Yes,Quickbasic and Turbo C.Turbo C is very good about 20 years ago,and I used it earning much money in my spare time

 

[Doppel]

I just signed onto ICQ for first time in maybe five years using my number, damn I still remember the password, too!

 

[Printer Bandit]

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