Cursed Tech

Jan 7, 2021 5:44 PM

Wonderwhim

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*Folds brochure laptop and slips into back pocket*

The Windows Window Windower 9000

Hope you have a second mouse

Mac startup sound blows out windows

Goodbye Switch, hello MacBoy 7

Some of my favorite photoshopped devices by @NanoRaptor on Twitter. www.twitter.com/NanoRaptor

Oh boy, first time on the front page, the weather is nice up here. All the credit to NanoRaptor for the incredible photoshop skills.

The "mac boy" with one button....

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Fun Fact: The Xerox Alto prototype PC had a portrait layout 8.5x11 screen so it represented a piece of paper.

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Two vertical screens would be so sick. I have one vertical screen at work and at home

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

#8 v

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

#5 finally, a system I can use Plan 9 on!

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Mostvare these are dumb funny. But the newton message pad looks actually great in the era of PalmOS.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Op...I dont like these.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Why.......do I hear vaporwave playing in my head as I look at these?

5 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Maybe you weren't around when synthesizers were all the rage.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I love cursed tech!! More posts like these! LOOK AT OUR RIDICULOUSNESS

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

5 years ago | Likes 25 Dislikes 0

I still own #7. Worthless and its passive matrix screen is almost impossible to view but I keep it. For no good reason.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I would buy two of those #3 monitors. In a heartbeat.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I hope you're proud of yourself. I twit he'd at every single one.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Macboy 7, sounds like a middle class rapper.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

[Apple Fanbois]: *heavy breathing*

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Is that kitty bobo is #3? I thought I imagined that show

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Yea kitty bobo! It was part of Cartoon Networks pick a cartoon back in 2001. It lost to codename: kids next door. Nostalgia!

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Where’s the Zune?

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Asking the important questions right here.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

...I thought these were real designs for a second there.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

#11 I used to have a similar watch face on my Pebble. I don’t see a problem here

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Lol is that Kitty Bobo?

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Oh thank God. I couldn't dream of operating nightmares like these.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I could swear I used something like #1 for DTP years ago.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Macintosh Portrait Display was a real thing. It wasn't in colour though.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

ah "photoshopped"... for a minute I was "how did i not know about all these treasures"

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I had a Newton, back in the day! Super fun tech.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Ah, Newton: v

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Bah! *chucks*

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

So glad we abandoned handwriting recognition.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

#12 this is Photoshopped right?

5 years ago | Likes 170 Dislikes 4

nope just cursed

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

No, the iiiiMaaaac 420 was released on March 69th, 2001

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

And the rest is real?

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

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5 years ago (deleted Feb 6, 2021 9:08 PM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

That explains why I've never seen them

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Which ones are not?

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

AFAICT none, but I've never actually encountered a Newton (though they did exist in some form). Some are much more 'shopped than others.

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

I think the Newton isn't.

5 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

The only thing fake about that one (#6) is the color.

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Isn't #2 real? Or am I being bamboozled again.

5 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 1

None are real

5 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 1

The caption says "Some of my favorite photoshopped devices by @NanoRaptor on Twitter. twitter.com/NanoRaptor"

5 years ago | Likes 33 Dislikes 0

But where is the big, red circle!?

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

♩ ♪ ♫ ♬

5 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

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Tektronix vector displays, I think.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Cheers for that, really. :)

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

So sad that these are photoshopped. I wanted them to be real.

5 years ago | Likes 172 Dislikes 2

some of them are....

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I had a Full page display a long time ago, it was made by radius not Apple but it definitely existed.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The ultrawide laptop didn't have to be shopped, Toshiba made one at some point.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

#3 is real

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Portrait monitors are real, I've seen them in use -- one of my colleagues had one.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I'm fairly certain the Newton MessagePad #6 isn't photoshopped. I've seen similar models of the device before.

5 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Did they make beige ones tho? I thought they were all black. I had a MessagePad 100 and wanted a 2000 but don't recall any that color.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Such disrespect to include the Newton in this dump. It wasn't a great device, but it (and various Palm products) were ahead of their time.

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I'm pretty sure the actual computers in #1 and #2 aren't shopped, just the displays, but it's been a looong time.

5 years ago | Likes 26 Dislikes 0

I’m sure I’ve seen first one for text editing.

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I also don't think those are shopped at all. Vertical displays like that were used for publishing, IIRC. Helped you see how a page laid out

5 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

the stuff displayed on the monitor is probably shopped in the first one.

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Very likely, if only because most of those monitors were grayscale, I think. :P If they found a colour one, though, I wouldn't be shocked →

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

→if someone sufficiently techy and nerdy found some way to hook it up to an iPhone for a laugh. :P

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

IIRC the displays, or something like them were a real thing but it's been a while for me too

5 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

Pretty Sure Microsoft has built these. I mean, do you remember Zune?

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

No actually I was too young at the time of release.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

So you could doom on them?!

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

most of these appear to be running Apple OSes, so back when Doom was current, no.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

People have play doom on a pregnancy test! So they could easily figure out on these

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

now, yes, when Doom was current and the source code closed, there was no Macintosh version.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yeah, I'd be down for a portrait monitor. I do a lot of writing and reading online for my job. There's also coders who'd probably buy

5 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

I hate to be that guy, but that's useless because they already made better then just a portrait monitor. Monitors that tilt 90°. 1/2

5 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

All you have to do is tilt it in your windows settings as well, and you're set ! 2/2

5 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

Also, I meant "than"... Not then

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

I was thinking for a laptop. Also, I'm terminally stupid.

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I already run 3 monitors for teaching, but really need a 4th so I can have 2 portrait monitors for coding.

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Windows has a build in feature to rotate screen(even hot keys). Just buy a Display you can flip.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Just buy one you can flip 90 degrees?

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I'm thinking for a laptop. And also I'm stupid

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Ah right, can't really imagine how you would make that convenient as a laptop, but I get your point

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Most people get that I'm stupid after a couple sentences too.

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