One of the fun things about having messed around with computers
for a long time, since about 1980, is that I have accumulated a certain number of
early Internet artifacts.
Today, while looking for something else, I ran across a box
of such stuff and found this: My Forbes magazine “Cue Cat”.
Forbes mailed them out to subscribers in 1999 and the idea
was that instead of having to look up webpages related to the magazine stories
we were reading, we could simply scan the bar code on the story and The Cue Cat would
take us there. I quickly decided that getting the cue cat hooked up and working on my Tandy 286 PC with dial up Internet access, was a lot more trouble than it was worth and I went back to typing in webpage
addresses by hand.
Apparently a lot of people felt the same way. According toWikipedia, it was once named one of "The 25
Worst Tech Products of All Time" by PC World magazine.
Glad to have participated in a small part of
Internet history.
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