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Two 2000's tech things I'm shocked still exist
(lemmy.world)
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I once got a funny error message published in PC Magazine’s Abort, Retry, Fail humor section and they gave me a t-shirt. I stopped reading PCMag around 1999.
Woot was cool until Amazon bought it and turned it into just another shitty overstock site. Not surprised Amazon has kept it around for hawking trash.
I mean a lot of the shit was refurb or overstock always. I bought a refurb Zune off Woot in 2007ish. The thing still works as a music player and is kinda awesome in form and UI.
Unfortunately I never got one of the "Bag of Crap" before they sold out, which I feel was half the charm of the site.
I bought a refurbished screen with built in VNC client or something from woot. Sweet! Set up VNC on my server, get home, fire up the screen, and it asks for DOJ login. 😳 Full stop.
Never plugged that into a network again.
Every PC I've ever purchased over the last 30 years has been a refurb.
I've never understood why people have issues with refurb machines.
After selling Woot to Amazon, the founder created meh which is basically what Woot began as.
Also has a BoC equivalent periodically.