pcworld.com— Among other disasters, these software snafus exposed 60,000 tax returns, accused the entire Web of hosting malware, and--horrors!--cut off the climactic moments of favorite TV shows.
Jun 17, 2009View in Crawl 4
1. 1995: Quicken MacInTax let people dial into a server and steal/edit tax returns, if you were savvy.2. 1998: eBay crashed for a while. People whined.3. 2005: TiVo started removing the end of recorded shows, which made game shows much more thrilling.4. 2006: Bubble Bobble Revolution wouldn't go past level 30. Nobody cared.5. 2007: Skype went down because people rebooted Windows at the same time and tried logging in. Mildly acceptable reason for failure.6. 2007: Microsoft started WGA and told everyone they are a ruthless, dirty pirate with scurvy and herpes.7. 2008: The G1 rebooted whenever you typed 'reboot' regardless of what app you where in. *facepalm*8. 2008: The Zune couldn't handle leap years. I still can't, because I never know which months gets the extra day every 4 years.9. 2009: Google accidentally marked every site as having malware. Net Nanny's of the world rejoiced.
chrystie69Jun 17, 2009
The Tivo bug that's mentioned here is ongoing actually.
Closed AccountJun 17, 2009
1. 1995: Quicken MacInTax let people dial into a server and steal/edit tax returns, if you were savvy.2. 1998: eBay crashed for a while. People whined.3. 2005: TiVo started removing the end of recorded shows, which made game shows much more thrilling.4. 2006: Bubble Bobble Revolution wouldn't go past level 30. Nobody cared.5. 2007: Skype went down because people rebooted Windows at the same time and tried logging in. Mildly acceptable reason for failure.6. 2007: Microsoft started WGA and told everyone they are a ruthless, dirty pirate with scurvy and herpes.7. 2008: The G1 rebooted whenever you typed 'reboot' regardless of what app you where in. *facepalm*8. 2008: The Zune couldn't handle leap years. I still can't, because I never know which months gets the extra day every 4 years.9. 2009: Google accidentally marked every site as having malware. Net Nanny's of the world rejoiced.
Closed AccountJun 17, 2009
Thank you XKCD...