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What’s the worst piece of technology you’ve ever owned? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 4 months ago by zachimusprime44 to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 4 months ago (6 children)

The Cuecat: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CueCat

Came at a time when there weren't barcodes everywhere and QR codes didn't exist yet. Companies had to publish Cuecat specific barcodes, it was much easier to just type in the URL by the time you figured out you could use it at all.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Ha, I had one and it's what first came to mind too. Pretty useless.

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