What are the saddest moments in geek history for you?

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JackBurton

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Three moments that stick out for me are...

1. 3DFX's demise
2. Napster going down
3. And more recently, Suprnova.org going down

Very sad days indeed for me. :(

I miss them all. :(
 
Deeko

Deeko

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Jun 16, 2000
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3dfx. I was very distraught, as those of you who patrolled the video forum with me back then knew.
 
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AmigaMan

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1. Demise of the Amiga...back in the early 90's. It was a great machine...
2. Demise of 3dfx. I bought a Voodoo5 5500 cheap and it was a great card too. But in time it just got too slow.
3. IBM leaving the PC/Laptop business. Love the Thinkpads but really just sad to see the original pioneer of personal computing get sold off to a Chinese company.
 
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KB

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Nov 8, 1999
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1. Star Trek the Next generation ends
2. Quantum Leap ends
3. Ken Jennings, the ubergeek, loses
 
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jjones

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Oct 9, 2001
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Don't have any sad geek moments. Quite honestly, I don't care what happens because I know the geeks out there will make something new and better.
 
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new2AMD

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Originally posted by: jjones
Don't have any sad geek moments. Quite honestly, I don't care what happens because I know the geeks out there will make something new and better.
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exactly..Napster comes to mind by with kazaa and others, it didnt really go away.

BT will be replaced with something I am sure.

For me it would be the pulling of the HU stream by DTV.
 
Deeko

Deeko

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Originally posted by: AmigaMan
1. Demise of the Amiga...back in the early 90's. It was a great machine...
2. Demise of 3dfx. I bought a Voodoo5 5500 cheap and it was a great card too. But in time it just got too slow.
3. IBM leaving the PC/Laptop business. Love the Thinkpads but really just sad to see the original pioneer of personal computing get sold off to a Chinese company.
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haha....oooh I miss this....the Voodoo5 actually was not poor technology for its era. The problem is, it was released at the wrong time. The V5 was intended to compete with the GeForce SDR...and would have crushed it. Problem is, they had production delay after delay, and it got released closer to the released of the GTS....which hurt. It still performed pretty well against the GTS, too....which is a testament to the card, considering it was a generation behind.
 
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new2AMD

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Originally posted by: Deeko
Originally posted by: AmigaMan
1. Demise of the Amiga...back in the early 90's. It was a great machine...
2. Demise of 3dfx. I bought a Voodoo5 5500 cheap and it was a great card too. But in time it just got too slow.
3. IBM leaving the PC/Laptop business. Love the Thinkpads but really just sad to see the original pioneer of personal computing get sold off to a Chinese company.
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haha....oooh I miss this....the Voodoo5 actually was not poor technology for its era. The problem is, it was released at the wrong time. The V5 was intended to compete with the GeForce SDR...and would have crushed it. Problem is, they had production delay after delay, and it got released closer to the released of the GTS....which hurt. It still performed pretty well against the GTS, too....which is a testament to the card, considering it was a generation behind.
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I still have a voodoo 3 in the drawer some where
 
rh71

rh71

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Aug 28, 2001
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3dfx and IBM selling the thinkpad line are definitely two of them for me.
 
DougK62

DougK62

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Mar 28, 2001
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I have two Voodoo3 2000s still. My eyes still think they have the best 2D around.

 
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zixxer

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about 1994.. maybe 95ish.. I had like 4gb of mp3's, games, etc... and the partition on my hdd.. for no reason.. was gone. Couldn't recover it.. then drive failed.


I seriously almost cried. all that time spent over a 56k modem... gone... gone....
 
purbeast0

purbeast0

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Sep 13, 2001
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it was actually last thursday ...

at lunch here at work, i ate lunch with 4 other co-workers, as well as 2 other friends of one of my co-workers to discuss ...




/whispers

Halo 2 clan strategy
 
nakedfrog

nakedfrog

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Apr 3, 2001
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When Origin Systems announced they would only be doing MMO games, no more single player
When I was playing Doom on my 486 and in the middle of a level my hard drive went *CLICK* *whirrrr* and I had to wait a few weeks for a replacement
 
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Izzo

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May 30, 2003
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No Fallout 3. (BOS does not count)

The uber-disappointement named MOO3.
 
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FFactory0x

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Aug 8, 2001
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Originally posted by: armatron
about 1994.. maybe 95ish.. I had like 4gb of mp3's, games, etc... and the partition on my hdd.. for no reason.. was gone. Couldn't recover it.. then drive failed.


I seriously almost cried. all that time spent over a 56k modem... gone... gone....
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They had .mp3's in 94, 95?
 
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Liviathan

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Feb 21, 2001
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June 1994, my 120MB hd crashed...HARD!!!
Lost alot of data that day. Couldn't back everything into 5 1/4 floppies, so i had to make do.

 
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Grey

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Oct 14, 1999
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Ea buying Kesmai studios and killing off my favorite two games in the world.
Ea buying westwood studios and prompty making them suck
3dFX crashing hard, I was a die hard fan and it hurt to buy an ATI Card next.
Crushing my first Duron 650 chips because of no heatspreaders.
 
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