The Biggest Tech Disaster?

[veg1992]

How about when Internet Service Providers started capping how much bandwidth you can use in a year/month

 

[kmote]

Printers.
Wireless routers.
The continued use and development of optical storage.

Bah Humbug

 

[Kharn]

How about when Internet Service Providers started capping how much bandwidth you can use in a year/month

OOooo That is a good one.

 

[Harper]

Here's another Tech Disaster...... AOL CDs and the way in which AOL would distribute them to every man, woman and child.

How about when Internet Service Providers started capping how much bandwidth you can use in a year/month

They have been doing that all the time down in Australia.

Then again, who here remembers the good old days with Optus Cable Internet where your node was shared with 10 others users in your area. The daily usage was based on an average of all those 10 users over the last 10 days. And it was all based in the house you downloaded verses the average of the other 10 users on your node.
Exceed that average usage by 8 times, you are issued a warning.
Exceed that average usage by 9 times, you are issued a 2nd warning.
Exceed that average usage by 10 time, they cut you off. After that you had to appeal to them to get your connection back.

Eg. If the average daily usage between you and the other 9 accounts was 1Gb a day, and I download 10Gb in a day, they would cut you off. Now this is going back to the around about 1999/2000. Back then there was not Kazaar and Uncle Torrents was all private FTP and that well guarded list of URLs linking to WaReZ sites. Back then, you really had to work hard at blowing that sort of traffic. It was an unfair system. Like I managed to raise alarm bells by getting a level 8 warning in 24 hours by downloading about 4Gb with a program called Teleport Pro.
And yet I had a friend that was in another part of town with a lot of uni students and unemployed people, and he used to leech porn sites like it was no bodies business.

 

[Apokalipse]

3. High Consumable prices. I have seen way too many printers getting thrown out just because the cost of the consumables is the same price or greater than the printer itself.

And we all know the profit margins for cartridges made by the printer manufacturers are way higher than they should be.
I don't know why that isn't illegal or something.

 

[Jorsoft]

Here's another Tech Disaster...... AOL CDs and the way in which AOL would distribute them to every man, woman and child.

I remember this well. I had an AOL rep who just wouldn't quit. Every week she'd come in and drape my department with AOL CDs. Seriously, like 10 of those cd strips. We got 100+ of those discs easily every week. After she'd leave I'd throw out all but one or two and she'd always come back, bright and cheery the next week, to blanket every shelf and open peg hook with more of them. She thought pretty highly of herself that she was having us go through so many lol.

 

[Nick]

lol we used to get the freeserve disks with orange elephants around the outside.

 

[Harper]

My little AOL cd story was this. In my first IT Job, I was drowning in them. My tight arse boss had his son watching over the shop. So anyways, friend of mine wanted an AOL cd so he could get the "You Got Mail" wav file. So i go into the back room, and I grab 1 and give it over to them.

My freinds leave, i return to my desk. And then i get the boss's son asking me for where the money is for the CD. And I am thinking "What....?"

He started to make a big deal out of the entire matter. So I reach into my pocket where i had some a handful of changea and I throw it at him.

 

[superdave1984]

Novell was pretty bad.

Hey, if it wasn't for Novell I wouldn't have the job I have now. Not that I am a fan, but 12 weeks of Novell class finally paid off.