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The Something Awful Forums > Main > Post Your Favorite: Carefully Curated > Post the very best in obsolete and failed technology
 
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bobkatt013
Oct 8, 2006

You’re telling me Peter Parker is ...... Spider-man!?

Zasraik posted:

The beeper.



Not a failure, just obsolete.

Every kid these days has a smart phone and a laptop but I remember when you could tell the swag girls from the powhitetrash by beeper ownership.

"Someone is trying to call me!"

Dennis The Beeper King Duffy is keeping the dream alive

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bobkatt013
Oct 8, 2006

You’re telling me Peter Parker is ...... Spider-man!?

OneEightHundred posted:



Oh Sega, your product ideas were so good, but your timing, market research, and price points were so bad. :sigh:

Also its battery use. I remember the Game Gear taking 6 batteries for two hours of play time.

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